[FYI] Javascript 2.0 proposal

2003-07-01 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Since we have put our bets on javascript, it may be inetresting to follow discussions about the new Javascript. http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/js20/ The nice thing is that the discussions seem to point to a more Java/Python-esque language, that can only make us happy :-) -- Nicola Ken Baro

Re: [proposal] kill xml-cocoon2 (WAS: FW: I may be wrong but...)

2003-06-22 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:12:15PM -0400, Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Geoff Howard wrote: Can we do something more drastic to the xml-cocoon2 repository that would prevent people from making this innocent mistake? What about removing everything except a README.TXT or something? I hope you really mean:

Re: [proposal] kill xml-cocoon2 (WAS: FW: I may be wrong but...)

2003-06-21 Thread Jeff Turner
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:12:15PM -0400, Vadim Gritsenko wrote: > Geoff Howard wrote: ... > >Can we do something more drastic to the xml-cocoon2 repository that would > >prevent people from making this innocent mistake? What about removing > >everything except a README.TXT or something? > > > >

RE: [proposal] kill xml-cocoon2 (WAS: FW: I may be wrong but...)

2003-06-21 Thread Geoff Howard
> -Original Message- > From: Vadim Gritsenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Geoff Howard wrote: > > >This guy along with a bunch of others found old instructions about > >xml-cocoon2 > > > > xml-cocoon2 is a symlink right now: > > lrwxrwxr-x 1 pier cvsadmin 19 Feb 26 18:23 xml-cocoon2@ -> >

Re: [proposal] kill xml-cocoon2 (WAS: FW: I may be wrong but...)

2003-06-21 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Geoff Howard wrote: This guy along with a bunch of others found old instructions about xml-cocoon2 xml-cocoon2 is a symlink right now: lrwxrwxr-x 1 pier cvsadmin 19 Feb 26 18:23 xml-cocoon2@ -> cocoon-2-historical and did a cvs checkout of HEAD thinking he was getting 2.1m3-dev. Can we do

[proposal] kill xml-cocoon2 (WAS: FW: I may be wrong but...)

2003-06-21 Thread Geoff Howard
This guy along with a bunch of others found old instructions about xml-cocoon2 and did a cvs checkout of HEAD thinking he was getting 2.1m3-dev. Can we do something more drastic to the xml-cocoon2 repository that would prevent people from making this innocent mistake? What about removing everythi

Re: A proposal for a best practice project

2003-06-18 Thread Ross Gardler
will probably be more efficient, but as there hasn't been many answers to your proposal, you probably need to seed the project with some code first to get feedback. If you can send a patch it could be a start (assuming others are ok on having such a sample as a block in Cocoon). I agree, a see

Re: A proposal for a best practice project

2003-06-18 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
ussions on this list, or should I start a project elsewhere (e.g. SF/Krysalis/CocoonDev) and report back to this list on significant events?... Discussing it here will probably be more efficient, but as there hasn't been many answers to your proposal, you probably need to seed the project wit

A proposal for a best practice project

2003-06-16 Thread Ross Gardler
I have recently been discussing with Carsten the need for a use case that illustrates many of the features in the new portal framework. With this in mind I will soon be starting a project to develop just such a use case. The purpose of this mail is twofold: 1) notify the community of this project 2

RE: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-30 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > I mean, when something is in there for ages and noone maintains it > > or uses it, it is pretty useless. What do you think? > > yes and no. i would think that leaving stuff on the scratchpad doesn't > really hurt anybody. I would suggest, instead, to keep it as a > scr

Re: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-30 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
on 5/28/03 8:03 AM Christopher Oliver wrote: > FlowVelocityGenerator to replace VelocityGenerator Does it have any drawbacks? if not, +1 all the way. -- Stefano.

Re: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-30 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
on 5/28/03 7:29 AM Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > >>Here is what I propose to move: >> >> 1) ImageReader >> 2) Paginator >> 3) JXTemplate* >> > > +1 > > >>anything else? > > > Do we have any policy when to blast things from the scratchpad, no, we don't. > I mean, when

Re: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-29 Thread Geoff Howard
At 02:15 AM 5/28/2003, you wrote: Here is what I propose to move: 1) ImageReader +1 Couldn't figure out why it was in scratchpad. Don't know much about the others. Geoff

Re: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-29 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Christopher Oliver wrote: Vadim Gritsenko wrote: ... First we are creating blocks for more modular design and the next thing is we are coupling everything back into monolith. I feel that's not the right way to go. We've got more than 5Mb worth of optional JARs (not counting blocks' libs) and

Re: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-29 Thread Christopher Oliver
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Christopher Oliver wrote: Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Christopher Oliver wrote: FlowVelocityGenerator to replace VelocityGenerator -1 to replacing: FlowVelocityGenerator introduces dependencies on org.apache.commons.jxpath and org.mozilla.javascript Sorry, org.mozilla.

Re: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-29 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Christopher Oliver wrote: Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Christopher Oliver wrote: FlowVelocityGenerator to replace VelocityGenerator -1 to replacing: FlowVelocityGenerator introduces dependencies on org.apache.commons.jxpath and org.mozilla.javascript Sorry, org.mozilla.javascript is not a probl

Re: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-28 Thread Christopher Oliver
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Christopher Oliver wrote: FlowVelocityGenerator to replace VelocityGenerator -1 to replacing: FlowVelocityGenerator introduces dependencies on org.apache.commons.jxpath and org.mozilla.javascript which where missing in original VelocityGenerator. Why is that a problem?

Re: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-28 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Christopher Oliver wrote: FlowVelocityGenerator to replace VelocityGenerator -1 to replacing: FlowVelocityGenerator introduces dependencies on org.apache.commons.jxpath and org.mozilla.javascript which where missing in original VelocityGenerator. Also, does it support functionality which is

Re: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-28 Thread Christopher Oliver
FlowVelocityGenerator to replace VelocityGenerator Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Here is what I propose to move: 1) ImageReader 2) Paginator 3) JXTemplate* anything else?

RE: [proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-28 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Here is what I propose to move: > > 1) ImageReader > 2) Paginator > 3) JXTemplate* > +1 > anything else? Do we have any policy when to blast things from the scratchpad, I mean, when something is in there for ages and noone maintains it or uses it, it is pretty usel

[proposal] move stuff from scratchpad into the trunk

2003-05-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Here is what I propose to move: 1) ImageReader 2) Paginator 3) JXTemplate* anything else? -- Stefano.

Re: [proposal] rethinking distribution strategy

2003-04-12 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Stefano Mazzocchi dijo: > on 4/12/03 5:03 PM Geoff Howard wrote: > > >> I'd be for it - but what about bugs marked blocking 2.1 release? And >> what about pending major changes to central contracts (flow)? >> How do we avoid getting stalled in beta? > > by releasing early and often, fixing one iss

Re: [proposal] rethinking distribution strategy

2003-04-12 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Stefano Mazzocchi dijo: > a) they get a release we consider stable in code (in fact cocoon > 2.1-dev is pretty damn rock solid from a code point of view, I never had > a failure in months and many are using it in production with no > problems) > > What do you think? I think there are just one imp

Re: [proposal] deprecation logger

2003-04-02 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: ... So I'm thinking about a global logger dedicated to deprecation messages. This would allow to write all messages going to that logger to e.g. a "deprecated.log" file. ... Nice suggestion; but can't we just use WARN for de

Re: [proposal] deprecation logger

2003-04-02 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Hi folks, We have in the 2.1 a number of features that are considered as deprecated, although still supported. We need a way to inform users (the ones that write Cocoon apps) that they use such deprecated features in a way that allows them to be fo

Re: [proposal] deprecation logger

2003-04-02 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Hi folks, We have in the 2.1 a number of features that are considered as deprecated, although still supported. We need a way to inform users (the ones that write Cocoon apps) that they use such deprecated features in a way that allows them to be found easily, and not int

[proposal] deprecation logger

2003-04-02 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Hi folks, We have in the 2.1 a number of features that are considered as deprecated, although still supported. We need a way to inform users (the ones that write Cocoon apps) that they use such deprecated features in a way that allows them to be found easily, and not intermixed in the usual lo

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-26 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 24 March 2003 19:13, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > This is not a run for market share. Isn't it??? The day the flow of developers goes towards .NET, the Java advantage will disappear as well, the community will dry up of fresh blood. The attitude "We don't want new people use our product

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist' (Forrest for binary dist)

2003-03-25 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Mardi, 25 mars 2003, à 20:36 Europe/Zurich, Nicola Ken Barozzi a écrit : Again I repeat my suggestion... what about driving users to Forrest for the impatient? It also contains preconfigured stuff for site building, it seems perfect for the impatient, no? I also missed it the first time

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Am I the only one who heard complains about cocoon being very cool but too hard to 'tune down' to simpler needs? I'm asking because I'm starting to wonder if this is the case. It's still 116 mails to go... But no, you are not alone. Vadim

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Andreas Hochsteger
On Sunday 23 March 2003 15:25, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: [snip] > I propose to ship Cocoon 2.1 *AS IS*, sort of a cleaned-up version of > our current CVS and improve a little the 'INSTALL.txt' doc that will > suggest you to do > > $> ./build.sh > $> ./cocoon.sh servlet > Isn't it possible to

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread J.D. Daniels
> Again I repeat my suggestion... what about driving users to Forrest for > the impatient? It also contains preconfigured stuff for site building, > it seems perfect for the impatient, no? > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry I missed it the first time around. Yes

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stephan Michels wrote, On 25/03/2003 18.46: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, J.D. Daniels wrote: ... See where I am going here? This is what (IMHO) most of new cocoon users are like. We are experienced developers. but chances are we won't be java aware so the idea of two extra binaries will, i think sl

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread J.D. Daniels
> No no, it's very useful. Maybe I'm wrong :-/ I only want to prevent > that users be scared by the installation, which takes sometimes a lot of > time and knowledge. I'm, for example, very impatient, if some software > takes too much time, or too many dependencies just for the first look, > then

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Morten Ludvigsen
Hi, sorry to butt in like this, but I am a newcomer to Cocoon, and I must say I am a bit worried by this suggestion. Trying to build Cocoon 2.1 dev on my W2K work station has proved a bit of a head ache. I have checked the newest version from CVS to C:\Src\new_cocoon-2.1 on my machine. When I t

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
J.D. Daniels wrote: Cocoon is not an app. It is a framework. Amen! And our users are not idiots, but experienced web programmers. Let's treat them as such. Stefano.

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Stephan Michels
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, J.D. Daniels wrote: > > > > So I whould like a solution there we offer a source distribution, and > > > binary distribution with a war, which includes all samples, and one > clean > > > war. So the user can first download the bin-dist, test all samples, > > > and experimental

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Geoff Howard
At 12:11 PM 3/25/2003, you wrote: > > So I whould like a solution there we offer a source distribution, and > > binary distribution with a war, which includes all samples, and one clean > > war. So the user can first download the bin-dist, test all samples, > > and experimentalize with the clean w

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread J.D. Daniels
> > So I whould like a solution there we offer a source distribution, and > > binary distribution with a war, which includes all samples, and one clean > > war. So the user can first download the bin-dist, test all samples, > > and experimentalize with the clean webapp. And then he is glad and wan

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Stephan Michels wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: In the beginning, there was only one cocoon distribution, packaged with two different packagers (zip for windows and tar.gz for unix and friends). Then cocoon became very complex and we decided to create a binary distribution to

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Stephan Michels
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > In the beginning, there was only one cocoon distribution, packaged with > two different packagers (zip for windows and tar.gz for unix and friends). > > Then cocoon became very complex and we decided to create a binary > distribution to make things

Re: Proposal

2003-03-25 Thread Leszek Gawron
On wto, mar 25, 2003 at 10:17:40 +0100, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Leszek Gawron wrote: > >I think it would be good to include AJP13 Listener in Jety config file so > >one > >could use Apache frontend OOTB > > read this: > > http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=ApacheModProxy I have complete

Re: Proposal

2003-03-25 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Geoff Howard wrote: On a side note, I looked at Cocoon a full year (or so) before I started using it and just passed it by because I couldn't quickly see if it could do what I wanted, and assumed it didn't. Just trying to learn from that now that I'm on the other side of the fence. This is tal

Re: Proposal

2003-03-25 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Leszek Gawron wrote: I think it would be good to include AJP13 Listener in Jety config file so one could use Apache frontend OOTB read this: http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=ApacheModProxy

RE: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-25 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Great! I wanted to propose exactly the same next week, you must read my mind sometimes :) So, a big +1 for only a source dist. Carsten > -Original Message- > From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 3:25 PM > To: Apache Cocoon > Sub

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Pier Fumagalli wrote, On 24/03/2003 20.34: On 24/3/03 11:00 am, "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 24/03/2003 11.53: ... 1) bandwidth reduction Then start taking ant away from CVS and distros, and use a mirrored download for the jars, it's part of the sa

Re: Proposal

2003-03-24 Thread Geoff Howard
At 03:50 PM 3/24/2003, Pier wrote: On 24/3/03 8:44 pm, "Geoff Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:38 PM 3/24/2003, you wrote: >> On 24/3/03 7:42 pm, "Leszek Gawron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I think it would be good to include AJP13 Listener in Jety config file >> so one >>> could u

Re: Proposal

2003-03-24 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 24/3/03 8:44 pm, "Geoff Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:38 PM 3/24/2003, you wrote: >> On 24/3/03 7:42 pm, "Leszek Gawron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I think it would be good to include AJP13 Listener in Jety config file >> so one >>> could use Apache frontend OOTB >> >> I a

Re: Proposal

2003-03-24 Thread Geoff Howard
At 03:38 PM 3/24/2003, you wrote: On 24/3/03 7:42 pm, "Leszek Gawron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it would be good to include AJP13 Listener in Jety config file so one > could use Apache frontend OOTB I am _strongly_ against this: the inclusion of Jetty in the Cocoon distribution is an

Re: Proposal

2003-03-24 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 24/3/03 7:42 pm, "Leszek Gawron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it would be good to include AJP13 Listener in Jety config file so one > could use Apache frontend OOTB I am _strongly_ against this: the inclusion of Jetty in the Cocoon distribution is an "enabler" for technology-showoff (y

Proposal

2003-03-24 Thread Leszek Gawron
I think it would be good to include AJP13 Listener in Jety config file so one could use Apache frontend OOTB ouzo -- __ | / \ |Leszek Gawron// \\ \_\\ //_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\\()//_ .'/()\'. Phone: +48(600)3411

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 24/3/03 11:00 am, "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 24/03/2003 11.53: > ... >> 1) bandwidth reduction (yes, this should be our concern as cocoon is >> getting so big) > > Then start taking ant away from CVS and distros, and use a mirrored > download

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread J.D. Daniels
IMHO: Cocoon is best suited to people who develop using other technologies - PHP C++ Visual Basic etc, who have realized the limitations for end user interaction. Within a half hour, right now the way the system is, you can see what cocoon does. It isn't an app, it is not a solution. It is a tool

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Geoff Howard
At 10:41 AM 3/24/2003, Stefano wrote: Steven Noels wrote: On 24/03/2003 15:28 Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I for one think the 'copy cocoon.war into webapps dir and look at http://server:port/cocoon/' paradigm helps a lot of newcoming users up & running very fast. please, define 'be up and running

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Steven Noels wrote: On 24/03/2003 15:28 Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I for one think the 'copy cocoon.war into webapps dir and look at http://server:port/cocoon/' paradigm helps a lot of newcoming users up & running very fast. please, define 'be up and running'. Not knowing about javac, ant, an

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Yes. This is going to be even more with the introduction of the flow since people with client-side knowledge (html + css + javascript + xml + namespace + xslt) will be able to write full-blown web applications with database connectivity *without* a

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Geoff Howard
At 09:28 AM 3/24/2003, Stefano wrote Am I the only one who heard complains about cocoon being very cool but too hard to 'tune down' to simpler needs? I'm asking because I'm starting to wonder if this is the case. Stefano. No, you're not crazy. This has been a theme for a while. In fact, i

build profiles (WAS Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist')

2003-03-24 Thread Geoff Howard
At 05:14 AM 3/24/2003, Stefano wrote: Hmmm, I was thinking about adding build profiles the other day.. something like: ./build.sh --profile=[profile] webapp that will override the build properties from [profile].properties that include several different configuration properties that drive

RE: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Matthew Langham
> life easier. So let's get over with this, and see what the users think. > They've been kept out of the loop for too long. > How about _asking_ the users beforehand? A quick poll in the users list would give some helpful feedback wouldn't it? Matthew

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Steven Noels
On 24/03/2003 15:28 Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I for one think the 'copy cocoon.war into webapps dir and look at http://server:port/cocoon/' paradigm helps a lot of newcoming users up & running very fast. please, define 'be up and running'. Not knowing about javac, ant, and whatelse, just doing

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Lundi, 24 mars 2003, à 15:31 Europe/Zurich, Geoff Howard a écrit : ...Would it help the psychological barrier to have a user friendly "Where is the binary" document/paragraph available and hard to miss that explains why we think even non programmers can and should build this from source? Not

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 24/03/2003 15.23: ... Nicola, in a perfect world, we would have totally isolated dynamic blocks with a super block manager and totally run-time hot-deployable stuff. In that case, we would *NOT* need a source distro at all because people would be able to tune their

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Geoff Howard wrote: At 06:13 AM 3/24/2003, you wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Monday 24 March 2003 17:25, Christian Haul wrote: This is an open *source* project, and a couple of things are a lot easier to do at compile time rather than at run time. Yes, like ./confi

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Geoff Howard
At 09:03 AM 3/24/2003, Stefano wrote: Geoff Howard wrote: Cocoon cuts across a number of different disciplines (java, xml at least?) and so "casual programmer" means different things. Very true. I am amazed at the number of people on users who claim to know no java. Yes. This is going to be eve

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Steven Noels wrote: On 24/03/2003 14:01 Upayavira wrote: Great! Do others think this is worth doing? Possible, sure. Worth doing, I really don't know. I won't vote against it but I won't help it making it happen. Related to this thread: I for one think the 'copy cocoon.war into webapps dir and

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 24/03/2003 12.21: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: ... I'm sure that if we don't give our users a sample precompiled version it will have a really negative impact on the alpha-view of Cocoon and stop many from checking it out, whatever technical

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Lundi, 24 mars 2003, à 14:45 Europe/Zurich, Stefano Mazzocchi a écrit : ...Right. I'll commit a dist target today to show you what I mean and we'll vote from that, ok? Way to go - this will help us make a better decision, and it doesn't prevent making binary dists later on if needed. ...do

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Geoff Howard wrote: At 06:13 AM 3/24/2003, you wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Monday 24 March 2003 17:25, Christian Haul wrote: This is an open *source* project, and a couple of things are a lot easier to do at compile time rather than at run time. Yes, like ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ m

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le Lundi, 24 mars 2003, à 12:38 Europe/Zurich, Upayavira a écrit : But we have to take psychology into account. CVS scared me at first. Build scared me too. How do we make the learning curve easier? Why loose people who don't get past those first hurdles, when they

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Diana Shannon
On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 07:50 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: A source-only distribution is not necessarily harder to use, it all depends how it is packaged and used. ... and documented. Most of the problems I've had with oss make-install-before-try software were related to some glitch, e

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Steven Noels
On 24/03/2003 14:01 Upayavira wrote: Great! Do others think this is worth doing? Possible, sure. Worth doing, I really don't know. Related to this thread: I for one think the 'copy cocoon.war into webapps dir and look at http://server:port/cocoon/' paradigm helps a lot of newcoming users up &

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 24/03/2003 12.21: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: ... I'm sure that if we don't give our users a sample precompiled version it will have a really negative impact on the alpha-view of Cocoon and stop many from checking it out, whatever technical motive you may have. I *stro

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Geoff Howard
At 06:13 AM 3/24/2003, you wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Monday 24 March 2003 17:25, Christian Haul wrote: This is an open *source* project, and a couple of things are a lot easier to do at compile time rather than at run time. Yes, like ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ make make install for spe

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Upayavira
On 24 Mar 2003 at 13:50, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > A possible scenario would be: > -user installs Java Web Start > -user goes to the Cocoon download page, clicks on a JNLP link which > starts a small install GUI -install GUI helps user download the Cocoon > source (maybe even specific CVS tags)

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Lundi, 24 mars 2003, à 12:38 Europe/Zurich, Upayavira a écrit : But we have to take psychology into account. CVS scared me at first. Build scared me too. How do we make the learning curve easier? Why loose people who don't get past those first hurdles, when they may well be perfectly capab

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 24 March 2003 18:14, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > BUT, a cocoon-sample.war would be great for "Introduction". I.e. Download > > that, drop it in your servlet container, and you have Cocoon's samples > > running. I'm sure "build process" scares away some users insti

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Upayavira
Stefano wrote: > > It's not a technical point, if it were only so we would be doing > > releases by just tagging CVS probably. > > I don't like your tone. I'm afraid on this point I agree with Nicola Ken. From a technical perspective, it makes complete sense to use a source build (even point peo

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Upayavira
> I'm not saying to make it inherently difficult for people (rather the > opposite, look how much energy I'm investing into this!) but to help > them focus on the right spot and if this makes more people fail early > rather than a few tens of emails down the road, well, I'm doing both > them and ou

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 24/03/2003 11.53: ... 1) bandwidth reduction (yes, this should be our concern as cocoon is getting so big) Then start taking ant away from CVS and distros, This is coming up next! :) and use a mirrored download for the jars, it's part of t

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Monday 24 March 2003 17:25, Christian Haul wrote: This is an open *source* project, and a couple of things are a lot easier to do at compile time rather than at run time. Yes, like ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ make make install for specifying installation directory

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Lundi, 24 mars 2003, à 11:43 Europe/Zurich, Stefano Mazzocchi a écrit : ...Oh, sure, but I was thinking of calling the distribution Apache_Cocoon_2.1.zip (or something like that) so it won't have "source" written anywhere. ok - if the distribution is "psychologically correct" then I'm fine. W

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 24/03/2003 11.53: ... 1) bandwidth reduction (yes, this should be our concern as cocoon is getting so big) Then start taking ant away from CVS and distros, and use a mirrored download for the jars, it's part of the same thing. I'm sure that if we don't give our users

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Cocoon is now a major opensource product, and as such its user base includes more and more people that are far less technically skilled than we are. Moreover (I already mentioned this) the power of Cocoon's builtin components leads to many people using it without ever open

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le Dimanche, 23 mars 2003, à 15:25 Europe/Zurich, Stefano Mazzocchi a écrit : ... Before you jump up and down and scream "no, no, binaries are easier for our users", get off your life-without-a-compiler-windows-inflicted-mindset and think that every JDK comes with a

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Christian Haul
On 24.Mar.2003 -- 05:36 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Monday 24 March 2003 17:25, Christian Haul wrote: > > This is an open *source* project, and a couple of things are a lot > > easier to do at compile time rather than at run time. > > Yes, like > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ > make > ma

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Monday 24 March 2003 02:08, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 23/03/2003 15.25: What do you think? +1 for the source distro. I agree, except... As for the binary distro, we simply never did one really. What I'd like to see is cocoon-full.war no

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
J.D. Daniels wrote: Well I am just a user... But you hit the nail right on the head there. I had cocoon up and running within minutes the first time I found it, but was extremely frustrated for months afterward, because I could load the samples page... and SEE what it could do, but not be able to i

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 24 March 2003 17:25, Christian Haul wrote: > This is an open *source* project, and a couple of things are a lot > easier to do at compile time rather than at run time. Yes, like ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ make make install for specifying installation directory, right? Need to t

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Christian Haul
On 23.Mar.2003 -- 03:25 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > I propose to ship Cocoon 2.1 *AS IS*, sort of a cleaned-up version of > our current CVS and improve a little the 'INSTALL.txt' doc that will > suggest you to do > > $> ./build.sh > $> ./cocoon.sh servlet > > and voila', that was it! or, i

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-24 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: In the beginning, there was only one cocoon distribution, packaged with two different packagers (zip for windows and tar.gz for unix and friends). Then cocoon became very complex and we decided to create a binary distribution to make things easier. Things were indeed e

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Dimanche, 23 mars 2003, à 15:25 Europe/Zurich, Stefano Mazzocchi a écrit : ... Before you jump up and down and scream "no, no, binaries are easier for our users", get off your life-without-a-compiler-windows-inflicted-mindset and think that every JDK comes with a compiler. Technically, I'm w

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 24 March 2003 02:08, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 23/03/2003 15.25: > > What do you think? > > +1 for the source distro. I agree, except... > As for the binary distro, we simply never did one really. What I'd like > to see is > >cocoon-full.war no need, I

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-23 Thread J.D. Daniels
little better. JD - Original Message - From: "Stefano Mazzocchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Apache Cocoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 6:25 AM Subject: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist' > In the beginning, there was only

Re: [proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-23 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 23/03/2003 15.25: ... So, in light of the good old triad ./configure; make; make install I propose to ship Cocoon 2.1 *AS IS*, sort of a cleaned-up version of our current CVS and improve a little the 'INSTALL.txt' doc that will suggest you to do $> ./build.sh $>

[proposal] a new kind of 'dist'

2003-03-23 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
In the beginning, there was only one cocoon distribution, packaged with two different packagers (zip for windows and tar.gz for unix and friends). Then cocoon became very complex and we decided to create a binary distribution to make things easier. Things were indeed easier for new users to ins

Re: [proposal] fixing the encoding problems

2003-03-21 Thread Santiago Gala
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: The problem with having an environment-dependent serializer is that the cache needs access to it because it might change its behavior depending on environment parameters. IIRC, the reason why serializers are "special" WRT cache stuff is exactly this (i.e. circular reas

[proposal] add Forrest binaries to our CVS

2003-03-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
(cc to -docs for info, please discuss on -dev) Recent activity on the cocoon-docs list suggests that the Forrestization of our docs might be happening soon, and this raises some issues due to the circular dependencies that this creates between Cocoon and Forrest. See [1] and [2]. Could we add

Re: [proposal] fixing the encoding problems

2003-03-19 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: If you start adding the environment, this is not true anymore and we must cache *BOTH* the pipeline output (as xml) and the serializer output (as binary) because their ergodicity can be different. This is the only concern I'm having. If enough

Re: [proposal] fixing the encoding problems

2003-03-19 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: If you start adding the environment, this is not true anymore and we must cache *BOTH* the pipeline output (as xml) and the serializer output (as binary) because their ergodicity can be different. This is the only concern I'm having. If enough people believe this is a

Re: [proposal] fixing the encoding problems

2003-03-19 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: Vadim Gritsenko wrote: One word: CacheableProcessingComponent. IIRC, cache was aware of cacheable serializers some time ago. The only missing piece is to add SitemapModelComponent support for Serializers. Yes, the caching algorithm queries serializers if they support cac

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