[geeklog-devel] [geeklog-cvs] Geeklog-1.x

[Vincent Furia]

Mark, Joe,

You can blame me.  I had planned to take a look at the template
caching patch but haven't had the nearly the time I had hoped to take
a look.  I apologize for that.

-Vinny

On Nov 25, 2007 7:54 AM, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:

> Mark R. Evans wrote:

>

> >So no template caching for 1.5?

>

> Correct.

>

>

> >I guess I don't understand how there could be all the discussion here months

> >ago about doing something about the template library and then when someone

> >does something that works incredibly well, is 100% backward compatible and

> >provides a performance increase it is tossed aside.

>

> The discussion months ago didn't provide a solution, then a feature

> freeze was called and only then did this new version arrive. Bad timing.

> Better luck next time.

>

>

> >I guess I don't understand how this can be set aside and core changes that

> >simply don't work (pure CSS commit moving header to COM_siteFooter -

> >references variable that don't even exist or get passed, doesn't support

> >dynamic columns, etc.) get in the codebase.

>

> We just have to draw a line somewhere. There is so much stuff that

> doesn't work (properly or sometimes even not at all) in CVS that we

> should address now to get this release out of the door. Instead, people

> (inside and outside of the core team) are coming up with "Ooh, can we

> add this, please? It's the last thing, I promise!" all the time :-/

>

> The XHTML patch was scary due to its size but pretty trivial on closer

> inspection. I'd say any problems it may introduce will be spotted easily

> enough. And unlike the template stuff, XHTML support is actually

> something that a signifant amount of our users have been requesting for

> some time now. So given the fact that someone went through the trouble

> to provide such a patch (twice), I was willing to make one final exception.

>

> But that's it now - no more new features for 1.5. Let's get working on

> the remaining issues, please.

>

> bye, Dirk

>

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