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[digester] release candidate digester 1.6RC1 now available

digester 1.6.0 is the release candidate for the long awaited digester 
release. this release contains numerous bug fixes as well as some very 
useful new extensions including plugins (an intuitive framework for 
dynamically modifiable rules) and substitutions (pre-processing of text 
and attributes before rule execution). please download and test the 
release candidate from:

http://www.apache.org/~rdonkin/commons-digester/

please report any issues as quickly as possible to the commons-dev list 
(so that they can be addressed before the final).

- robert


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Re: [digester] release candidate digester 1.6RC1 now available

Posted by robert burrell donkin <ro...@blueyonder.co.uk>.
hi simon

thanks for taking a look at release candidate and for catching all 
those things!

i think that i've addressed all except 4 (which may need a little bit 
of talking about which i'll kick off in a separate email). i'm probably 
going to go ahead and roll another release candidate sometime soonish. 
(4 is really a process issue.)

- robert


On 28 Aug 2004, at 11:18, Simon Kitching wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 10:13, robert burrell donkin wrote:
>
>> thanks for letting me know. i'll leave it a few more days so you (and
>> everyone else) has the chance to take a good look.
>
> Hi,
>
> Here's some fairly superficial stuff I found:
>
> 1. RELEASE-NOTES.txt file
> (a) has a section describing how ArrayStack class has been copied into
> package o.a.c.d. This is no longer true.
> (b) probably needs to mention that the rss dtd files have been removed.
> (c) information about the rss changes is given *twice*: once near the
>     start, and once under "OTHER IMPORTANT NOTES". These sections
>     should probably be merged.
> (d) under "Examples Added", perhaps should note that the examples
>     are available from the digester-16-src download as well as CVS?
> (e) Add note about collections dependency no longer needed if using
>     latest version of beanutils?
>
> 2. STATUS.html file (as bundled in -src download) is out-of-date
>
> 3. examples build process
> The build process for the src/examples/api subdirs works nicely.
> But for src/examples/xmlrules and src/examples/rss there is no
> documented build process. And for src/examples/plugins the documented
> process is not correct (there is no build.properties.sample file).
>
> 4. The "commons-digester-1.6.0RC1-src.zip" file contains files with 
> unix
> line terminators. Isn't the convention that the .tgz files contain unix
> format (LF) files, and the .zip files contain dos (CRLF)?
>
> 5. the package.html file for o.a.c.d:
> (a) has an "external dependencies" section. This should indiate that
> collections is required only with beanutils < 1.7.
> (b) has some very minor typos:
>        "referred two by" --> "referred to by"
>        "perfixed" --> "prefixed"
> (c) The "Extensions" section says there are "Two extension packages"
>   then procedes to list three :-)
>
> 6. package.html for o.a.c.d.parser
>   Minor typo:
>     "have no been standardized" -> "have not been standardized"
>      (presumably written by a scotsman :-)
>     "Digesters" --> "Digester"?
>
>
> Otherwise, all looks good.
>
> I'm happy to fix some of this myself early next week if you don't beat
> me to it..
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
>
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Re: [digester] release candidate digester 1.6RC1 now available

Posted by robert burrell donkin <ro...@blueyonder.co.uk>.
On 28 Aug 2004, at 11:18, Simon Kitching wrote:

<snip>

> 4. The "commons-digester-1.6.0RC1-src.zip" file contains files with 
> unix
> line terminators. Isn't the convention that the .tgz files contain unix
> format (LF) files, and the .zip files contain dos (CRLF)?

the way i've always cut releases is that the only differences between 
the two versions of the source is the way that they are packaged. since 
i always build my releases on a linux box, the line endings are always 
exported (from cvs) using unix conventions.

AFAIK this is also the way that craig's built his digester releases. 
i'm not really sure how important an issue this one is but if you think 
that it's worth pursuing, i'll try to find out what other people in the 
commons do.

- robert


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Re: [digester] release candidate digester 1.6RC1 now available

Posted by Simon Kitching <si...@ecnetwork.co.nz>.
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 10:13, robert burrell donkin wrote:

> thanks for letting me know. i'll leave it a few more days so you (and 
> everyone else) has the chance to take a good look.

Hi,

Here's some fairly superficial stuff I found:

1. RELEASE-NOTES.txt file
(a) has a section describing how ArrayStack class has been copied into
package o.a.c.d. This is no longer true.
(b) probably needs to mention that the rss dtd files have been removed.
(c) information about the rss changes is given *twice*: once near the
    start, and once under "OTHER IMPORTANT NOTES". These sections
    should probably be merged.
(d) under "Examples Added", perhaps should note that the examples
    are available from the digester-16-src download as well as CVS?
(e) Add note about collections dependency no longer needed if using
    latest version of beanutils?

2. STATUS.html file (as bundled in -src download) is out-of-date

3. examples build process
The build process for the src/examples/api subdirs works nicely.
But for src/examples/xmlrules and src/examples/rss there is no
documented build process. And for src/examples/plugins the documented
process is not correct (there is no build.properties.sample file).

4. The "commons-digester-1.6.0RC1-src.zip" file contains files with unix
line terminators. Isn't the convention that the .tgz files contain unix
format (LF) files, and the .zip files contain dos (CRLF)?

5. the package.html file for o.a.c.d:
(a) has an "external dependencies" section. This should indiate that
collections is required only with beanutils < 1.7.
(b) has some very minor typos:
       "referred two by" --> "referred to by"
       "perfixed" --> "prefixed"
(c) The "Extensions" section says there are "Two extension packages"
  then procedes to list three :-)

6. package.html for o.a.c.d.parser
  Minor typo: 
    "have no been standardized" -> "have not been standardized"
     (presumably written by a scotsman :-)
    "Digesters" --> "Digester"?


Otherwise, all looks good.

I'm happy to fix some of this myself early next week if you don't beat
me to it..


Regards,

Simon


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Re: [digester] release candidate digester 1.6RC1 now available

Posted by robert burrell donkin <ro...@blueyonder.co.uk>.
On 23 Aug 2004, at 22:44, Simon Kitching wrote:

<snip>

> Hi Robert,

hi simon

> I just wanted to let you know I *do* intend to have a look at the RC
> soon. Unfortunately the last week has been rather busy.
>
> Hope to send an update soon.

thanks for letting me know. i'll leave it a few more days so you (and 
everyone else) has the chance to take a good look.

- robert


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Re: [digester] release candidate digester 1.6RC1 now available

Posted by Simon Kitching <si...@ecnetwork.co.nz>.
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 09:14, robert burrell donkin wrote:
> digester 1.6.0 is the release candidate for the long awaited digester 
> release. this release contains numerous bug fixes as well as some very 
> useful new extensions including plugins (an intuitive framework for 
> dynamically modifiable rules) and substitutions (pre-processing of text 
> and attributes before rule execution). please download and test the 
> release candidate from:
> 
> http://www.apache.org/~rdonkin/commons-digester/
> 
> please report any issues as quickly as possible to the commons-dev list 
> (so that they can be addressed before the final).

Hi Robert,

I just wanted to let you know I *do* intend to have a look at the RC
soon. Unfortunately the last week has been rather busy.

Hope to send an update soon. 

Cheers,

Simon


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