Ok, in the follow line to Smalltalk and Web. I wonder what experiences there are with the stability of Web Framweworks from the viewpoint of a user of this Frameworks. Let's ask it the otherway.
if I have some Seaside 2.3 and upgrade to 2.8 (somehow) will it break my old applications?
The same of course for AidaWeb, how much work must I expect if a new version comes around.
In the same line of question. How long are the versions maintained and are bugs still fixed or not?
Regards Friedrich
if I have some Seaside 2.3 and upgrade to 2.8 (somehow) will it break my old applications?
Detailled differences are listed on the web-site. See "What's new in Seaside 2.7", "What's new in Seaside 2.8" and "What's new in Seaside 2.9":
http://www.seaside.st/community/development
Seaside 2.3 is very old, it is likely that you need to refactor big parts. Especially the rendering engine has changed.
Cheers, Lukas
Friedrich wrote:
Ok, in the follow line to Smalltalk and Web. I wonder what experiences there are with the stability of Web Framweworks from the viewpoint of a user of this Frameworks. Let's ask it the otherway.
if I have some Seaside 2.3 and upgrade to 2.8 (somehow) will it break my old applications?
The same of course for AidaWeb, how much work must I expect if a new version comes around.
In the same line of question. How long are the versions maintained and are bugs still fixed or not?
Most Aida systems in production currently are 'image as database" based and must therefore be carefully upgraded to new Aida versions, which is usually done live, without shutting down. That's why we have quite few years of experience migrating them without damaging or even loosing production images. Stability of Aida web systems is therefore guaranteed.
Forthcoming release of Aida 6.0 will need a small migration of existing classes, for which the necessary scripts are already prepared and also tested on production systems. I namely update those systems with interim development versions as well, to test enhancements in reality. So you can expect a final release as already very stable one.
Short answer: following the migration notes you won't have problems migrating from 5.6 to 6.0.
Janko
Hi!
Friedrich wrote:
Ok, in the follow line to Smalltalk and Web. I wonder what experiences there are with the stability of Web Framweworks from the viewpoint of a user of this Frameworks. Let's ask it the otherway.
if I have some Seaside 2.3 and upgrade to 2.8 (somehow) will it break my old applications?
We/I started developing Gjallar in january 2006 (not sure which version of Seaside was current at the time) and development has continued since - in different bursts. Gjallar is a relatively large Seaside app, about 90 subclasses of WAComponent. We use Scriptaculous, but not pervasively.
We just recently moved up to the latest and greatest (from 3.8 to 3.10.2 and using latest 2.8) and over this period I must say that sure, some things here and there broke (but the changes were probably documented) but fixes were quite easy and it was nothing really problematic.
regards, Göran
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