On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:26 +0200, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > Hi all, > > after an extended rewrite of the dispatcher I am happy to say that my > first tests are all passing now. > > The upgrade steps for custom dispatcher projects are straightforward: > 1) Renaming extension of the contracts from *.ft to *.contracts.xml > demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=701113 > > 2) Renaming elements from view to structurer > demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=701117 > > 3) Renaming structurer file and adding new extension > demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=701325 > > 4) The path of the defaultVariables has changed a bit. Removing one > level > demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=703149 > > 5) [optional] Renaming extensions for contracts and structurer in > properties files. > demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=701119 > > Step 5 is optional since in the normal use case one is using the default > configuration. However our fresh site sadly added the > "dispatcher.theme-ext" property. Just do: > - <property name="dispatcher.theme-ext" value=".fv"/> > > > On my todo list still are two open points: > 1) Merge the cocoon-2.2 block dispatcher into the current plugin. This > needs extending the normal build of plugins since cocoon 2.2 needs > additional files in the resulting jar.
That has be done as well. > 2) Small document of the new features and how we can use them. This still needs more work. > > Since I have done the whole work in a branch I need to merge it ASAP. I > suspect that the merge will not be fully conflict free since there has > been some commits to the trunk of contracts that are not in the branch. Since I did not merged the branches right away the recent work of Gavin and David on the html/css validation compatibility is not incorporated when I simply merge the branches. Bummer. IMO the best is to repeat the above steps on a clean new branch for the rewrite or even directly do it in trunk since the plugin should leave the whiteboard as well. WDYT? salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> Open Source Java <consulting, training and solutions> Sociedad Andaluza para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información, S.A.U. (SADESI)
