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. :) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> Joseph B. Ottinger >> http://enigmastation.com >> IT Consultant >> [email protected] >> Editor-in-Chief - Java Developer's Journal >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials >> Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of >> GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system >> administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensymphony-sitemesh mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-sitemesh >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. >> http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail >> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joseph B. Ottinger http://enigmastation.com > IT Consultant [email protected] > Editor-in-Chief - Java Developer's Journal [email protected] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-sitemesh mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-sitemesh > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click