Re: Working on SIM-82

+100 (I assume we use a weighted system)

Long overdue.

-joe

Joseph Ottinger wrote:

>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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