[xwiki-users] Groovy version

[Vincent Massol]

On May 2, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Michael Baehr wrote:

> A quick check replacing groovy-all-1.0-jsr06.jar with groovy- 
> all-1.0.jar shows 4 errors in GroovyTemplateEngine.
>
> There seems to be a typo in the old Groovy version, naming a method  
> MetaClassRegistry.getIntance()  (instead of getInstance() - note  
> the missing 's').
>
> Renaming those methods makes XWiki compilable (at least in  
> Eclipse), so I don't think there would be a big problem to use the  
> Groovy 1.0 release - as long as there are no Groovy scripts  
> somewhere that might break due to changes in the Groovy language  
> itself.

AFAIR there might be some issues with the groovy cache and its  
integration in XWiki. I think I heard Ludovic mention that a long  
time ago but I don't know more.

-Vincent

> Vincent Massol schrieb:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2007, at 8:08 PM, Michael Baehr wrote:
>>
>>> Quite some time ago I asked whether there are plans to upgrade  
>>> the included version of Groovy from JSR-06 to the 1.0 release.
>>>
>>> I never got an answer, and I see that no version change occurrred  
>>> in the last release candidate.
>>>
>>> Is Groovy used in a standard installation and can I replace the  
>>> corresponding jar myself without breaking anything?
>>
>> The general answer is "yes we would like to use it". I think the  
>> reason we haven't migrated yet is because we were worried it would  
>> break something and we wanted to release 1.0 ASAP. But personally  
>> I agree that we should have tried the upgrade earlier.
>>
>> It's a bit late now to try the upgrade as we're in RC stages for  
>> the 1.0 release but we should definitely do it in early 1.1 releases.
>>
>> I don't know if anything will break but it's very likely the core  
>> will need to change to work with groovy 1.0. If others know more,  
>> please chime in.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>
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