Re: Is there a recent release of taglibs standard?

Quoting "Klotz, Leigh" <[email protected]>:

> In trackng down a problem that turned out to be bugs 30068 and 41481, I
> have become confused.
> 
> I cannot find Taglibs jstl.jar and standard.jar or releases that contain
> the fix, which shows as fixed in December 2006.
> 
> So, now I'm trying to track down where the current release of Apache
> Jakarta taglibs is kept, and indeed whether the project is still being
> maintained.  
> 
> Details:
> 
> - In http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30068 
> there is a one-line fix to a bug involving $ variables inside x:forEach.
> 
> The downloads off
> http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html 
> lead eventually to
> http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_taglibs-standard.cgi 
> and finally to
> http://apache.cs.utah.edu/jakarta/taglibs/standard/binaries/jakarta-tagl
> ibs-standard-1.1.2.tar.gz 
> which do not contain this fix.
> 
> In http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41481 
> (marked as dup of 30068) there is a hyerlink to
> http://people.apache.org/~bayard/standard-1.1/ 
> with jar files containing the fix from 30068, along with a comment that
> http://people.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs/nightly/projects/ 
> nightly builds have been broken since August 29, 2006 (which still seems
> the case), and since this predates the 12/2006 fix date, the nightly
> doesn't include the fix, either.
> 
> Confused Questions:
> 
> Is Jakarta Taglibs Standard still being developed?  

Yes, but there hasn't been much activity lately.

> Is there a release planned that incorporates the existing bug fixes?  

You might be interested in this page:

http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-taglibs/Standard_1%2e1%2e3

We (taglibs-dev) have talked on and off about pulling things together for a new
release, but there isn't a firm schedule in place.

> Am I looking in the wrong spot for downloads?  

It certainly looks like the nightly builds are busted, and apparently have been
for quite some time. It also looks like the page for released builds has
issues:

http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/index.html#Release%20Builds

You can always try:

http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/taglibs/standard/

but that doesn't make use of the mirrors.

> Are people using Taglibs 1.1.2 (or a later version) in production
> software, and if so, are they building from source?  

I'm using (and have used) Standard 1.1.2 in production. I'm using the
distributed JAR files.

> If so, which source and where is the definitive location?
> 
> Thank you,
> Leigh.

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