Re: Working on SIM-82

Hani Suleiman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.sitemesh.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
+1 from me, even though I'm sure it entails endless unhelpful smarmy  
comments like the below.

On Mar 9, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Joseph Ottinger wrote:

> 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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