Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Berin Loritsch
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 01:26, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: For the versioning, we could for example release a 2.2 soon, change the environment abstract after that and then release a 2.3 later this year. Two more releases this year, YEAH!!! Th

Re: Dists and Core blocks selection [Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Upayavira wrote: I would also ask whether we should consider replacing the serializers in core with those in the serializer block. Why would you replace single class which works in 99% of cases with 4Mb of code? Vadim

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 01:26, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: For the versioning, we could for example release a 2.2 soon, change the environment abstract after that and then release a 2.3 later this year. Two more releases this year, YEAH!!! That's a remarkable spirit ;o

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Sylvain Wallez wrote: So my opinion about ditching our abstraction is that, as we say in France, it is urgent to wait. Along with the backwards compatibility problems that ditching the abstraction in 2.2 may lead to, we should see if that common abstraction comes to life and then consider using

[jira] Commented: (COCOON-1589) ImageReader problem with grayScaleFilter

2005-12-13 Thread Renaud Waldura (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1589?page=comments#action_12360388 ] Renaud Waldura commented on COCOON-1589: I had the same problem as the original reporter on Cocoon 2.1.7, and had arrived to the same conclusion after reading the co

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Niclas Hedhman schrieb: > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 01:26, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > >>For the versioning, we could for example release a 2.2 soon, change the >>environment abstract after that and then release a 2.3 later this year. > > > Two more releases this year, YEAH!!! > That's a remar

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 04:12, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: From a users perspective (= the average Cocoon developer), most of the "messiness" is hidden. She does not have to deal with how the tree processor works, or with implementing an own pipeline etc. All these i

Possible gotcha in maven 2

2005-12-13 Thread Dondi Imperial
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Re: Dists and Core blocks selection [Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Upayavira wrote: Jorg Heymans wrote: Also: are we carrying forward all blocks to 2.2 or is this the time where we ditch the obscure, rarely used and "blocks that don't really deserve to be a block" blocks? I'ld say we choose the 10 most often used and well known blocks and let the users vo

Re: Dists and Core blocks selection [Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Upayavira skrev: I would also ask whether we should consider replacing the serializers in core with those in the serializer block. Better move the current core serializers to an own block. IMO we should have a core that only contains the minimal infrastructure and

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 04:12, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > From a > users perspective (= the average Cocoon developer), most of the > "messiness" is hidden. She does not have to deal with how the tree > processor works, or with implementing an own pipeline etc. All these > interfaces and compon

Re: Cocoon 2.2 - Build and deployment with Maven2

2005-12-13 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Reinhard Poetz skrev: Reinhard Poetz wrote: A second thought: As outlined in one of my previous mails, a Cocoon block will become a valid jar file, for example with following content: ROOT +-- block.xml +-- pom.xml +-- sitemap.xmap +-- org | +--myProject |

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 01:26, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > For the versioning, we could for example release a 2.2 soon, change the > environment abstract after that and then release a 2.3 later this year. Two more releases this year, YEAH!!! That's a remarkable spirit ;o) Just kidding... I

[jira] Created: (COCOON-1713) [LINK] www.mw-import.de

2005-12-13 Thread Jianuy Wang (JIRA)
[LINK] www.mw-import.de --- Key: COCOON-1713 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1713 Project: Cocoon Type: Task Components: * Cocoon Core Reporter: Jianuy Wang Priority: Trivial -URL of the website: http://www.mw-impor

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Ralph Goers wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Which makes actually two different abstractions for the same purpose, and makes blocking the outputstream on our own abstraction useless, as people can access it anyway. It would be better IMO to have a single abstraction, but _control_ how the output

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Ralph Goers wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Which makes actually two different abstractions for the same purpose, and makes blocking the outputstream on our own abstraction useless, as people can access it anyway. It would be better IMO to have a single abstraction, but _control_ how the output

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Ralph Goers
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Which makes actually two different abstractions for the same purpose, and makes blocking the outputstream on our own abstraction useless, as people can access it anyway. It would be better IMO to have a single abstraction, but _control_ how the outputstream is used,

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On 13.12.2005 22:20, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: I have the feeling that changing this does not buy us something and that does it not make life easier - I might be wrong though. Now, I still think we should make the request/response objects more easily accessible somehow. +1 to both. Jörg

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: Ralph Goers wrote: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: The servlet set of apis is allready an abstraction, we have due to historical circumstances another abstraction of the same concepts. To me the abstractions look fairly similar, except for the Cocoon aditions that h

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Ralph Goers wrote: > > Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: > > >>The servlet set of apis is allready an abstraction, we have due to >>historical circumstances another abstraction of the same concepts. To >>me the abstractions look fairly similar, except for the Cocoon >>aditions that have been mentioned

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Ralph Goers
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: The servlet set of apis is allready an abstraction, we have due to historical circumstances another abstraction of the same concepts. To me the abstractions look fairly similar, except for the Cocoon aditions that have been mentioned. What am I missing more specifi

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Carsten Ziegeler skrev: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Look, Cocoons current messiness depends on a large amount of small things. If we not are able to improve these areas one at a time Cocoon will stay as messy as it is. Sure, but I really think messiness is a very hard work here. I know, but

Re: New ASF members

2005-12-13 Thread Jeremy Quinn
On 12 Dec 2005, at 18:28, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Hi all, An ASF members meeting was held yesterday evening here in San Diego during which new members were voted in. Among the 33 new members, some are well known here: - Bruno Dumon - Antonio Gallardo - Ross Gardler - Reinhard Poetz - Jeremy

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Reinhard Poetz skrev: --- Carsten Ziegeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: More seriously, it was an RT, I wanted to hear what people think and if there was any problems that I hadn't thought about. I will of course cast a vote before commiting anything. We co

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Sylvain Wallez skrev: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: It seem like we all agree about that the Cocoon core need to be simplified, although we have different opinions about how to achieve it. IMO it can be done in steps by refactoring of the trunk. One of the complications with Cocoon is the environ

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: > Look, Cocoons current messiness depends on a large amount of small > things. If we not are able to improve these areas one at a time Cocoon > will stay as messy as it is. > Sure, but I really think messiness is a very hard work here. From a users perspective (= the ave

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Carsten Ziegeler skrev: Leszek Gawron schrieb: Carsten Ziegeler wrote: In general I agree with this - it makes learning Cocoon internal a little bit easier. But I think the current environment api is not our biggest problem. Anyways, our current Request object has more functionality as the s

Re: Dists and Core blocks selection [Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Upayavira skrev: Jorg Heymans wrote: Also: are we carrying forward all blocks to 2.2 or is this the time where we ditch the obscure, rarely used and "blocks that don't really deserve to be a block" blocks? I'ld say we choose the 10 most often used and well known blocks and let the users voice

Re: [RT] Changing Abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Berin Loritsch skrev: IMO, abstraction is not bad, however the wrong abstraction is. Using the right abstraction can make using a library or tool much easier to grasp and use. Now, I'm sure you are sick of Ruby and Rails, but I'd like to share a little about how the user interacts with the e

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Jorg Heymans skrev: Carsten Ziegeler wrote: I strongly suggest that we start creating roadmaps. This also would make the development of Cocoon for users much more transparent. Currently I have only two points which I really think have to be finished for 2.2: the build/deployment stuff and ma

Re: Cocoon 2.2 - Build and deployment with Maven2

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Reinhard Poetz skrev: Reinhard Poetz wrote: A second thought: As outlined in one of my previous mails, a Cocoon block will become a valid jar file, for example with following content: ROOT +-- block.xml +-- pom.xml +-- sitemap.xmap +-- org | +--myProject | +-- MyJavaflowControlle

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Ralph Goers
Torsten Curdt wrote: While I agree that it is OK to break compatibility to some degree between 2.1 and 2.2, I think this is more of a change than I'd really like to see between 2.1 and 2.2 as it will require modifications to every Cocoon application. Either we allow such required modif

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Reinhard Poetz
--- Carsten Ziegeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: > > > > More seriously, it was an RT, I wanted to hear > what people think and if > > there was any problems that I hadn't thought > about. I will of course > > cast a vote before commiting anything. We could > possib

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: It seem like we all agree about that the Cocoon core need to be simplified, although we have different opinions about how to achieve it. IMO it can be done in steps by refactoring of the trunk. One of the complications with Cocoon is the environment abstraction: o.a.c

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: > > More seriously, it was an RT, I wanted to hear what people think and if > there was any problems that I hadn't thought about. I will of course > cast a vote before commiting anything. We could possibly provide some > optional back compability mode that puts the envi

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Leszek Gawron schrieb: > Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > >>In general I agree with this - it makes learning Cocoon internal a >>little bit easier. But I think the current environment api is not our >>biggest problem. Anyways, our current Request object has more >>functionality as the servlet request obj

Re: New ASF members

2005-12-13 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Reinhard Poetz wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Hi all, An ASF members meeting was held yesterday evening here in San Diego during which new members were voted in. Among the 33 new members, some are well known here: - Bruno Dumon - Antonio Gallardo - Ross Gardler - Reinhard Poetz - Jeremy Quin

Re: New ASF members

2005-12-13 Thread Marcus Crafter
On 12/12/2005, at 7:28 PM, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Hi all, An ASF members meeting was held yesterday evening here in San Diego during which new members were voted in. Among the 33 new members, some are well known here: - Bruno Dumon - Antonio Gallardo - Ross Gardler - Reinhard Poetz - Jeremy

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Jorg Heymans
Upayavira wrote: > For me, the absolute most important thing is getting the build working > again with the excalibur stuff. I'm here at ApacheCon with Maven chaps > around, and the easier it is for me to 'grok' the current Maven setup, > the more likely I am to be able to understand and explore

Dists and Core blocks selection [Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Upayavira
Jorg Heymans wrote: > Also: are we carrying forward all blocks to 2.2 or is this the time > where we ditch the obscure, rarely used and "blocks that don't really > deserve to be a block" blocks? I'ld say we choose the 10 most often used > and well known blocks and let the users voice their concer

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Torsten Curdt
While I agree that it is OK to break compatibility to some degree between 2.1 and 2.2, I think this is more of a change than I'd really like to see between 2.1 and 2.2 as it will require modifications to every Cocoon application. Either we allow such required modifications or we need to s

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Upayavira
Jorg Heymans wrote: > > > Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > >> >> I strongly suggest that we start creating roadmaps. This also would make >> the development of Cocoon for users much more transparent. Currently I >> have only two points which I really think have to be finished for 2.2: >> the build/depl

[RT] Changing Abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Berin Loritsch
IMO, abstraction is not bad, however the wrong abstraction is. Using the right abstraction can make using a library or tool much easier to grasp and use. Now, I'm sure you are sick of Ruby and Rails, but I'd like to share a little about how the user interacts with the environment there. It

Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction

2005-12-13 Thread Leszek Gawron
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: In general I agree with this - it makes learning Cocoon internal a little bit easier. But I think the current environment api is not our biggest problem. Anyways, our current Request object has more functionality as the servlet request object, e.g. to get the sitemap prefi

Re: New ASF members

2005-12-13 Thread Bruno Dumon
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 09:33 +, Ross Gardler wrote: > Reinhard Poetz wrote: > > Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> An ASF members meeting was held yesterday evening here in San Diego > >> during which new members were voted in. Among the 33 new members, some > >> are well known

Re: New ASF members

2005-12-13 Thread hepabolu
Giacomo Pati wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Sylvain Wallez wrote: An ASF members meeting was held yesterday evening here in San Diego during which new members were voted in. Among the 33 new members, some are well known here: - Bruno Dumon - Antonio Gallardo - Ross Gardler - Reinhard Poetz - Jer

Re: New ASF members

2005-12-13 Thread Giacomo Pati
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Sylvain Wallez wrote: An ASF members meeting was held yesterday evening here in San Diego during which new members were voted in. Among the 33 new members, some are well known here: - Bruno Dumon - Antonio Gallardo - Ross Gard

Re: Cocoon 2.2 - Build and deployment with Maven2

2005-12-13 Thread Jorg Heymans
Reinhard Poetz wrote: We also discussed the structure of projects as proposed by Jorg some time ago (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=113102875010469&w=2). /my-block pom.xml /api pom.xml /impl pom.xml /samples pom.xml The (usual)

Re: New ASF members

2005-12-13 Thread Ross Gardler
Reinhard Poetz wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Hi all, An ASF members meeting was held yesterday evening here in San Diego during which new members were voted in. Among the 33 new members, some are well known here: - Bruno Dumon - Antonio Gallardo - Ross Gardler - Reinhard Poetz - Jeremy Quinn

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Jorg Heymans
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: I strongly suggest that we start creating roadmaps. This also would make the development of Cocoon for users much more transparent. Currently I have only two points which I really think have to be finished for 2.2: the build/deployment stuff and making the current bloc

Re: Roadmap for 2.2 [was Re: [RT] Ditching the environment abstraction]

2005-12-13 Thread Joerg Heinicke
Carsten Ziegeler apache.org> writes: > >>And for me the most important question :) What is the suggested > >>timeframe/version for this? Do you want to do this for 2.2? > > > > So it sounds like 2.2. > > Hmm, ok, this is a point where I disagree :) I think we should get 2.2 > out asap to have ou

Re: Cocoon 2.2 - Build and deployment with Maven2

2005-12-13 Thread Reinhard Poetz
Reinhard Poetz wrote: A second thought: As outlined in one of my previous mails, a Cocoon block will become a valid jar file, for example with following content: ROOT +-- block.xml +-- pom.xml +-- sitemap.xmap +-- org | +--myProject | +-- MyJavaflowController.class +-- app

Re: Cocoon 2.2 - Build and deployment with Maven2

2005-12-13 Thread Reinhard Poetz
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Reinhard Poetz skrev: After working on the deployer and learning more about the Maven2 internals, I want to share 2 thougths: I've already raised the question whether it is possible to merge block.xml and pom.xml. For now it's not as dependencies in pom.xml can't

Re: New ASF members

2005-12-13 Thread Reinhard Poetz
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Hi all, An ASF members meeting was held yesterday evening here in San Diego during which new members were voted in. Among the 33 new members, some are well known here: - Bruno Dumon - Antonio Gallardo - Ross Gardler - Reinhard Poetz - Jeremy Quinn Congratulations and a