I have just closed the last JIRA (of 68) for the RSF 0.7.3 release, which is expected later this week.
http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/jira/browse/RSF/fixforversion/10160 The release candidate 0.7.3RC1 is now is now available in the CARET Maven 2 Development repository at http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/maven2dev/ as well as the Sakai Maven 2 repository at https://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2/ (check the http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/rsfwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=TrunkCode ) page for more pointers. See the 0.7.3M1 announcement at http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/2008-March/001542.html for general details on the features and goals of the 0.7.3 release. It would be appreciated if any RSF users could spare the time to check out this candidate and report any releases - I have checked over a couple of tools in trunk (page order helper and blog wow) which work fine (with a small update for blogwow). The most important developer-facing issues with this release are the more stringent validation of component trees and view parameters http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/jira/browse/RSF-39 http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/jira/browse/RSF-94 http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/jira/browse/RSF-50 http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/jira/browse/RSF-23 These may in some cases cause apps which formerly worked to fail with a (hopefully helpful) diagnostic. RSF-39 has been particularly useful in catching some errors within the framework samples and almost always represents a developer error. In general for this release, you will need to be more "formal" about attaching components to their position in the tree in a proper order, taking care that none will "dangle" or become circularly connected. An important issue for Sakai users is http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/jira/browse/RSF-112 - the sakai-util.jar, which was previously an indirect concrete JAR dependency passed on from SakaiRSF itself, is now no longer required. This should make it easier to build and deploy Sakai RSF apps in "non-standard" or vendor drop situations without running into version conflicts. The client-side renderer is coming along well, having been cleared for running in IE6. In general at and after 0.7.3 towards the RSF 0.8 release, we will start to see releases of "RSF Client" becoming more decoupled from those of "RSF Server" as the relationship with Fluid becomes clarified. Cheers, Antranig. _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
