Re: New year wish: please make a stable branch

From: Mike Schrag (mschra..dimension.com)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 09:38:07 EST

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    OK, 86 is at http://www.mdimension.com/~wolips/2.0.0.86 ...

    On Jan 9, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    > Someone volunteered to put up a 2.0.0.84 for me to grab, so that
    > will go up soon ...
    >
    > ms
    >
    > On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Jake Fisher wrote:
    >
    >> Did anyone make available/find a copy of 2.0.86 to look at?
    >>
    >> ~jake
    >>
    >>
    >> On 1/6/06, Jake Fisher <fisherj..mail.com> wrote:
    >> I am using a slightly more recent build (2.0.91) than 2.0.84 so I
    >> am not sure if these apply:
    >>
    >> - WoLips Tools-->Install has been disabled though I am not
    >> exactly sure which build it became disabled on?
    >> - WoComponent Editor/Wod Editor I am still pushing for 'protected'
    >> members as well as public members being included in the auto-
    >> complete list for Components. ( WOL-195 )
    >>
    >>
    >> Beyond that I am not sure without getting 2.0.84 reinstalled.
    >>
    >> Where can I find a zip/tar of 2.0.84?
    >>
    >> ~jake
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> On 1/6/06, Mike Schrag <mschra..dimension.com > wrote:
    >> If people are OK with 2.0.84 being the one, then we can definitely
    >> just make that the one.
    >>
    >> Also, I'm perfectly OK backing out the custom WTP plugin. It didn't
    >> really fix the problem entirely ANYWAY and it's always bugged me.
    >> That would at LEAST make us stock plugins (3.2M4 + WTP 1.0 + TPTP
    >> 4.x). But I do agree that if we don't put our foot down on SOME
    >> version, we'll always be playing this game. You are correct that the
    >> issue came up months ago of stabilizing, but then we kept moving
    >> forward and it never really came up again.
    >>
    >> So is everyone OK with 2.0.84 being the next stable build?
    >>
    >> Also, what do people think about repointing the main wolips website
    >> to just be the wiki? Overall it's got the more correct info I think
    >> and it's definitely easier to keep up-to-date (though it's slightly
    >> out now as of the 3.2M4 changeover).
    >>
    >> And lastly, I'm just curious what people perceive as the worst bugs
    >> as of right now? My personal hit list (in no particular order):
    >>
    >> 1) I have no idea how flattening works in the incremental builder --
    >> it always seems to put my web server resources one folder deeper than
    >> I expect
    >> 2) cmd-o doesn't work -- this makes me want to kill myself :)
    >> 3) building w/ full wod validation enabled gets SLOW (this is totally
    >> my fault ... we need to work on a caching layer for looking up
    >> related resources, or maybe Ulrich has one already and I just need to
    >> know how where it is)
    >> 4) Sync editor w/ Package Explorer doesn't work
    >> 5) Double clicking on an error in the Problems view doesn't
    >> immediately take you to the error. Double clicking a second time
    >> will.
    >>
    >> I think those are the ones that annoy me the most. Any other ones
    >> really get on peoples nerves so we can try to prioritize?
    >>
    >> By the way, if you are experience progressively degrading Eclipse
    >> performance on OS X, I opened a new bug about it at bugs.eclipse.org
    >> -- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=122428 . Please
    >> post up there if it happens to you as well so they devs can get more
    >> info on the problem.
    >>
    >> ms
    >>
    >> On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:34 AM, mar..iffy-berlin.in-berlin.de wrote:
    >>
    >> > Hi,
    >> >
    >> > On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:
    >> >> while I would be the first one to welcome a stable release without
    >> >> a ton of beta dependencies, I'd guess that this won't happen. It's
    >> >> just too much work to downgrade the new features to 3.1 and with a
    >> >> few of them, this is not even possible.
    >> >> So the best bet is to wait out for 3.2 final and WTP final and
    >> >> then try to make a stable version.
    >> >
    >> > Yes, that would be nice. I just fear that this might not be done.
    >> > At least now we are in the same situation as half a year ago with
    >> > 3.1.1. At the point, Eclipse 3.1.0 was out, and 3.1.1 was still in
    >> > beta. The same day 3.1.1 was finally released, I installed the
    >> > latest WOLips and all its dependencies (which was 2.0.68 at the
    >> > time I think). And I hoped for a stable release of WOLips.
    >> >
    >> > And now we have lots of dependencies on 3.2beta, and a patched
    >> > plugin. And the hope, that once 3.2 is finally out and the wtp team
    >> > has incorporated our patches, that a stable version of WOLips will
    >> > finally be made? Maybe at that time everything depends on 3.3beta
    >> > of Eclipse? :)
    >> >
    >> >> Unless there is someone who volunteers to do all the backporting
    >> >> work...
    >> >
    >> > Well, there is no backporting required really. Just take the latest
    >> > release of WOLips which did not require 3.2M4 and no patched
    >> > plugins, make a branch on that and declare it stable. That can then
    >> > be published on the website, and if any major bugs pop up, they can
    >> > be fixed in the branch.
    >> >
    >> > On 5. Jan 2006, at 23:27 Uhr, Marc Respass wrote:
    >> >> I would vote for a simple official release more than final
    >> >> versions of all dependancies. Just make 2.0.0.86 an official
    >> >> release. I've been using it for while now with no problems. When I
    >> >> go to
    >> >> http://www.objectstyle.org/woproject
    >> >> I want to see version 2.0 and be able to download it without any
    >> >> trouble. Right now, it's difficult to find WOLips 2 and get it
    >> >> installed but it works great.
    >> >>
    >> >> Marc
    >> >
    >> > I second that! 2.0.86 works fine for me with Eclipse 3.1.1 and
    >> > MacOSX 10.4.3/WebObjects 5.3 resp. MacOSX 10.3.9/WebObjects 5.2.3.
    >> >
    >> > Marc
    >> > PS: At the very least, please make a link from the homepage to the
    >> > wiki.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >



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