Dear Wicket devs, we are in the same situation too :-) For more than a year we are stuck to the dead 2.0 branch and are still hopefully awaiting the new generified major release. Old 2.0 with a few patches works quite fine but we won't probably survive waiting another year for the 1.4/2.0 release...
So I'm totally +1 for adding only generics and other Java 1.5 features in the next major release... Regards, Bendis Dne Friday 14 of March 2008 22:14:56 Stefan Lindner napsal(a): > Dear Philip, > > we are in the same situation. Just starting a new project, we discussed to > write a generic wrapper for all the wicket classes (Model, Component, > etc.). We are waiting for a generic wicket wersion now for a year. Having a > genierfied wicket version (let's call it 1.4M1 or 2.0M1) wohlg make us sooo > happ. > > Migration to wicket 1.3 was impossible because of heavy generic usage all > around our code. It's hard to imagine how to use wicket's model without > generics. > > I totally agree with your opinion: "Quit punishing us 2.0 early adopters > already". > > It is still a pleasuere to use OLD wicket 2.0 and it still works pretty > stable. And I am sure it will be much more pleasure to work with a > generified wicket 1.4/2.0 > > Stefan > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Philip A. Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Freitag, 14. März 2008 22:00 > An: dev@wicket.apache.org > Betreff: Re: Planning Wicket Next Generation > > ++++++++++1 > > I've been waiting on generics since 2.0 was killed. As an early adopter of > 2.0, I've been struggling with a few projects that where written against > 2.0. So far, I've fought off the urge to convert to 1.3 simply because it > doesn't make sense to rewrite for 1.3, then again for 1.4. Also, these > projects make *heavy* use of generics and it would be a terrible pain to > re-write them without. I'd rather go straight to the generics version. > Quit punishing us 2.0 early adopters already. > > Jeremy Thomerson wrote: > > I definitely don't have any votes in this, but I have several production > > apps running with Wicket, and use 1.5 / generics in all of them. Has > > there been any discussion of a faster release that ONLY includes > > generics? Last I remember, someone had the generics patch(es) basically > > done, and just needed to apply them. > > > > I would really like to see generics soon, but if they get put in with all > > the other features for 1.4, it would be 6-9 months (at least) before I > > could use them. > > > > Jeremy Thomerson > > -- sent from a wireless device > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Johan Compagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: dev@wicket.apache.org > > Sent: 3/14/08 4:23 PM > > Subject: Re: Planning Wicket Next Generation > > > > Its not that revolutionairy. > > For example if 1.4 was just 1.3+generics then if your project like > > vocus thats already on 1.5 it would be a drop in replacement. So api > > and 'feature' wise not much has happend then, only easy of development > > (for most not all are fans ;)) > > > > On 3/14/08, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 3/14/08, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> is the next release an evolution or revolution? :) i think first we > >>> need to make a list of all major things we want to go into it, and > >>> then decide. > >> > >> I think it counts as revolutionary: abandoning Java 1.4 is > >> revolutionary I think. > >> > >>> > 2 - are we going to timebox the milestones, or plan on features > >>> > added? > >>> > >>> personally i think we should come up with a list of all the features > >>> we want, throw them into a backlog, and timebox it. > >> > >> See the wishlist: > >> http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/wicket-14-wish-list.html > >> > >>> > 3 - how many milestones do we plan? > >>> > >>> id like 6. 1-4 dev, 5-6 stabalizaton. we were never able to get away > >>> with just one beta release before, most bugs are found after we put > >>> out the first beta...so i dont expect a lot of bugs to be found > >>> until the last dev milestone goes out. > >> > >> Fine with me. > >> > >>> > 4 - which features go into each milestone? > >>> > >>> what are the features? :) > >>> > >> :D > >> > >> http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/wicket-14-wish-list.html > >> > >> Martijn > >> > >> -- > >> Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst Apache Wicket 1.3.1 > >> is released Get it now: > >> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.1 -- Martin Benda Technology Leader __________________________________________ Cleverlance - The Clever Enterprise Solutions The Winner of the Technology FAST 50 for Czech Republic www.cleverlance.com <http://www.cleverlance.com/> European Business Center Dukelských hrdinů 34 170 00 Praha 7 Czech Republic Phone: +420 266 177 166 Cell.: +420 774 470 824 Fax: +420 266 177 155
