Re: Velocity Renovation

[Dave <sn...@gmail.com>]

Thanks for investigating this. I hope we can address those in some post-6.0
releases.

Dave

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 3:49 AM Michael Bien <mb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Rollers,
>
> just wanted to mention that before I updated roller to use latest apache
> lucene, I tried to update apache velocity, but had to give up fairly
> early on.
>
> The problem was that the build is using the texen ant task of velocity
> 1.7* to generate the db scripts and velocity 2.1 doesn't provide this
> package anymore. Looks like roller is stuck with 1.7 for now unless the
> build is changed to use freemarker for the db scripts or some other
> solution is found.
>
> btw spring security would need some renovating too. Its two major
> versions behind.
>
> *
> https://github.com/apache/velocity-engine/tree/1.7.x/src/java/org/apache/velocity/texen
>
> best regards,
>
> michael
>
>