5 Aug
2008
5 Aug
'08
5:18 p.m.
Hi Pascal,
On Aug 3, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Pascal Voitot wrote:
Hello,
I have been working for some time compiling my own snapshot
XWikiEnterprise
1.5 (I was following the trunk in fact) but I have stopped following
the
trunk in order to test some things... Apparently now the version is
1.6...
Before looking directly in the code with my own eyes, I prefer
asking a few
questions about all the new features (modular architecture, new
rendering,
new macros etc...):
Are they integrated in the last available tags? (the modular
architecture
has appeared long time ago but it's not the default archi yet)
It's been integrated a long time ago but we've decided to do
integration rather than a big bang meaning we've started doing it
slowly one piece at a time.
Right now there are the following new parts in 1.6 which use the new
component based architecture:
- new velocity module
- new rendering modules
- new cache modules
- new observation modules
- new container/context modules
- new query manager
and probably some more.
Does it break any compatibility?
No.
Do you still use the old implementations as the
default one?
For what? For the rendering yes.
When do you intend to replace the old archi with the
new one? Do you
have an
idea of the roadmap for this? Is version 2.0 the version when the old
implementations will disappear?
There's no such roadmap. We're replacing bit by bit. Right now we're
working on 3 parts:
- new rendering
- new wysiwyg
- new storage with jcr/query manager
Future steps are:
- write the new model
- write the new storage
I need to have such information in order to know if I
go on
upgrading using
the trunk because it brings some bug corrections without breaking any
existing things?
No it doesn't break anything normally.
or do I use a tag version to have a stable and fixed
platform?
I don't fear using new versions and examining bugs and even
correcting them
as long as they don't destroy my database?
Don't worry about that.
Note: the new rendering introduces a new column in the DB for
documents: the syntax id. the old syntax is used when this field is
empty, null or contains "xwiki/1.0".
Thanks
-Vincent