I'm not sure why there havn't been point releases; probably because with
Mike leaving and Jayson's health the project has kind of been left without a
clear manager crackin heads.
I know that I've got api changes in Zend_Pdf_Image subclasses coming but
that patch is about 50% done (i've got tiffs done, working on PNG's and will
need to do jpeg's from scratch), these work with the new file parsers which
willie added for 0.1.5. So everythings still building on itself, and the
api's are becoming stronger and more consolidated. This is a good thing, a
stable api at this point would be bad imho.
Theres also some changes in the MVC stuff coming afaik; which im sure will
involve api changes, but I'll let those guys talk about those changes.
The bottom line is, that the zfw doesnt make you repeat a lot of code so
upgrading is usually a matter of editing your index bootstrap file, as well
as any changes to specific libs you're using like Zend_Pdf. I find it takes
me about 15 minutes to upgrade a fw release between point versions. (And
you're by no means -required- to upgrade for each point release)
For example, between 0.1.4 and 0.1.5 a change was made to the router part of
the framework. This required a minimal upgrade to addRoute to take another
parameter _if you were using custom routes_, if you weren't there was no
upgrade required there. You would have also needed to change a couple of
small things if you were using Zend_Pdf to support the new font subsystem.
(There are probably other small changes in some other subsystems, but none
that affected me)
In all I don't think these changes are a big deal to make on a regular basis
for the benefit of getting what framework offers today.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuardo -StR- Rodríguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [fw-general] ZF in production
On Thursday 21 September 2006 12:36, Kevin McArthur wrote:
That said, upgrading the framework has been painless for the most part and
every upgrade has so far been worth upgrading for imho. So go ahead and
use
it knowing that it will change, and just simply help contribute back any
changes you make while running it.
If SVN is so different from 0.1.5.. what does it need now to be released as
0.1.6? Or would you like to ship all the changes and make a big jump from
0.1.5 to 1.0?
Thanks
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