[Webware-devel] 0.8 b2 issues.

[Stuart Donaldson]

I am trying to stick to the plan outlined a couple weeks ago on the 0.8 release. The goal being to get the mostly stable current development version in CVS released as 0.8 in the near future.
There are a couple of recent issues that I wanted to touch on.

** Regarding the Page.writeDocType() method **

The 0.7 behavior was to return a 4.01 transitional doctype. The current behavior is to return nothing. However this apparently breaks some 0.7 installations, and debugging such a problem can be a pain. If left as is, it needs a good comment in the release notes.

Chuck, I think you were the one that changed the default because of instability in Mozilla. But it is not clear to me anyway that the Mozilla problem remains. Any thoughts on this?

My interpretation of the consensus on the mailing list is that we should restore the 0.7 behavior, and add a note to the Release Notes highlighting the potential problem of an incorrect DocType string for the HTML you are generating. Also noting that the behavior has reverted to 0.7 as opposed to following the last several months of CVS behavior.

If anyone wants to suggest some other DocType strings and information to be added to the Release Notes, Users Guide, or to the writeDocType doc string please do so.

I don't have a high degree of confidence in this approach not being a pain, because the CVS trunk has behaved differently for so long. But it seemed like the way to go from the e-mail threads.

** Regarding the SessionMemoryStore and saving to disk. **

It appears unlikely from the e-mail thread that many people are using the SessionMemoryStore relying on the save to disk behavior. The direction I think we are leaning is to remove that capability of the SessionMemoryStore, making it memory-only and not persistent.

While the risks of changing this for 0.8 may be low, I am not sure that the benefit in changing the paradigm from established behavior is worth it at this point. I currently lean towards leaving this until after 0.8.

** Disclaimer **
I am trying to err on the side of caution, and expeditious release of 0.8. Beyond that, we can come out with a 0.8.1 if necessary if we decide we want more changes in the way things work.
-Stuart-



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