Roller status.

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Roller status.

I upgraded the Roller main branch (and this site) to Struts 1.1b3, Castor 0.9.4.3, Xerces 2.3, and Ant 1.5.1. I'll pop in Struts 1.1 RC1 when it arrives. I think we are pretty close to a Roller 0.9.7 release. Lance has finished replacing all of the old Roller "macros" with VelociMacros (don't worry, we'll keep the old macros around for a while) and we only have a couple of open issues left to go. I do want to do a little work on the comments feature before we release. Lance did a great job on comments, but I want to polish it up a little before it goes out.

Dave Johnson in Roller 06:06PM Feb 17, 2003 Comments [6]
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Don't we have to keep these macros around <em>forever</em> in a sense - in case folks are using them in their archived posts. I've been thinking, it would be nice if we could have a way to preserve old site/template stuff and make a clean break to new stuff. Virtually impossible I'm guessing. What I mean is that it'd be nice to change my "daily weblog" template and it wouldn't affect my past posts, only future ones.

Posted by Matt Raible on February 18, 2003 at 01:10 PM EST #

Potentially you are right, however none of the existing $macro's are really suited to individual use in entries. References to $entry or $entries will still be good, so that won't break. I'd be interested to know if anyone has used a $macro in any of their posts.

Posted by Lance on February 18, 2003 at 05:31 PM EST #

Yeah, adding support for macros to weblog entries was misguided at best. A macro in post was the root cause of the great FreeRoller outage of Fall 2002. My bad ;-) We should turn that off.

Posted by Dave Johnson on February 18, 2003 at 09:46 PM EST #

I've used $macros.showResourcePath() a few times, but that's about it.

Posted by Matt Raible on February 19, 2003 at 06:28 AM EST #

Geez, I overlooked the various showResourseX() methods... Well, Macros.java isn't going away just yet, but you're spot on, Matt, this could cause problems. Let's put our heads together sometime and discuss the best way around this.

Posted by Lance on February 19, 2003 at 12:41 PM EST #

You should really use the roadmap for linking to issues that are open: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10000&report=roadmap Cheers, Scott

Posted by Scott Farquhar on February 20, 2003 at 12:34 AM EST #

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