RE: Working on SIM-82

Victor, THIS IS NOT THE OPENSYMPHONY WAY.

You're supposed to say "it isn't necessary," which removes any burden of
work from my thin shoulders. :) Add disparaging comments at whim, etc. :)

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Victor Salaman wrote:

> +1 ... Do it mate!
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Joseph Ottinger <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Opensymphony-sitemesh] Working on SIM-82
> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:57:43 -0500 (EST)
>
> You know, part of the problem with SIM-82 is that the decorators are
> applied in a massive rat's-nest of code. Would anyone vastly object to me
> looking into ripping it all into tiny little pieces and reassembling it in
> such a way that it, you know, works?
>
> This would be a pretty fundamental rewrite. The apply decorator tag and
> the pagefilter would both be scrapped, while the configuration gets left
> alone (as do the mappers) - the response and request wrappers would be
> added to and reorganized (I know, I know, you're thinking "Request
> wrappers? There are none!" Well, there should be - and there is in
> SIM-83.) The parsers would be left alone, too - it's mainly in applying
> the decorators themselves that things get wonky.
>
> The chores would be to rewrite the core of applying the decorators - I'm
> willing to take that on, as I've been spending my free time in that stuff
> lately - and in testing to make sure everything works as expected. I think
> we can manage that, but I don't have every container handy, so there may
> be behavior I can't mirror locally.
>
> Any suggestions/advice/refusals? (I can hear them now: I'm mainly writing
> this to give you a chance to say stuff like "sitemesh is good enough, it's
> only on one main container that it's badly broken, it works for me," etc.
> See, when you say stuff like that, it means I can throw up my hands and
> ignore the problem just like everyone else, which frees me up for other
> tasks again. :)
>
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