Hi all,
As promised last week, I've started to attack the backlog of
contributions that have come in over the last month or so. The first
thing I've done is to post a Seaside2.6a2-avi.1 version to
SqueakSource, which includes a number of small fixes and
enhancements. They are:
- Fix Color>>hex (lr)
- Refactor the ValidationDecoration to look for a specific
notification (cds)
- Fix anchorWithPopupUrl:extent:do: (lr and mjr)
- Add extra classes to input elements with their type (lr)
- Reseed the random number generator used for IDs on image startup (al)
- #labelAfter:input: (dc)
- #urlForAction:andPath: (lr)
- change values from WAInspector (pmm)
- add year nav to MiniCalendar (al)
- add a large #hash value to StateHolder (lr)
- ensure that URL paths start with a / (lr)
- Fix validation of DateSelector
- Notify entry points when they're removed from the Dispatcher
- Unregister all sessions when clearing the Registry
Some of these have less obvious motivations than others; the
reseeding of the random number generator, for example, is necessary
when running multiple copies of the same image in a load balanced
setup so that they don't end up using the same sequence of IDs for
sessions and static resources. The #hash addition to StateHolder is
a performance optimization that works around problems with large
identity dictionaries in Squeak. If anyone wants more detail on the
others, let me know.
The large group of contributions I haven't yet addressed is that
dealing with XmlHttpRequest. Frankly, I'm a bit overwhelmed by all
of the changes, many of them conflicting, that have come in for that
code. I also feel that it's likely to keep changing at a high rate -
certainly higher than most of the rest of the framework. To help us
manage that, I propose splitting it into a separate package, and I've
done that for 2.6a2. All of the "liveRequest" code is now in a
SeasideAsync package, kept in the same repository. I would very much
appreciate it if anyone with changes or extensions to that code -
whether or not they were previously published in the Seaside package
- would, at the least, commit corresponding new versions of
SeasideAsync, so that we can do some focused merging and discussion.
The third thing I plan to do is to look over the major external
packages related to Seaside for overrides and extensions that might
be better rolled into the main release. The packages I plan to look
at are:
- SeasideTesting
- Magritte
- ShoreComponents
- Bicephale
If there are others you want to call my attention to, please do.
Cheers,
Avi