[Seaside-dev] Seaside2.8a1-lr.518 will be Seaside 2.8 final

[Dale Henrichs]

Philippe,

So I'm running the tests after merging Seaside2.8a1-lr.518 and I find 
that we're failing WAPlatformTest>>testAsString....Specifically '0.1' 
asString returns the 'wrong' value. BTW, '0.1' displayString returns the 
'correct' value. Now I know there has been some brouhaha over 
asString/displayString, but my interpretation of the end result of the 
discussion was that asString would only be used in specific spots (like 
converting Symbols to Strings).

SmallDouble>>asString (0.1 ends up being an instance of SmallDouble) is 
implemented as a primitive, so it will take a bit of monkey-business on 
my part to safely implement #asString for SmallDouble - which can be 
done ... BUT....

I'm really just trying to double check whether #asString is ever 
expected to be sent to a Float in Seaside (having a test for it does 
indicate the expectation).... but it will be a whole lot easier to 
simply change the test in GemStone 2.8g1:)

The only suspicious Seaside code is in 
WAUrl>>encodeParametersOn:usingHtmlEntities:, since that's the only WA* 
class that uses #asString with no qualifying comment, so perhaps this 
_is_ the place where a Float is expected.

Dale

Philippe Marschall wrote:

>Hi guys
>
>Seaside2.8a1-lr.518 will be the final version of Seaside 2.8. We
>tested this together with Scriptaculous-lr.220, Comet-mb.23 and
>RSRSS2-pmm.9. We won't annouce this in public before Friday 17:00 CET.
>We included all the stuff from the VW guys except the #ifDefinded:do:.
>We refactored one sender to use a platform specific subclass and the
>other (SeasideAsync) does not justify an additional method in
>SeasidePlatform support in our opinion.
>
>We'll open a new respository for 2.9 were all the new stuff can go in.
>This is the resource session stuff from the VW guys, the custom
>WAProcessMonitor and more (we didn't forget you Ramon). Eventually we
>want to have a Universe for Seaside 2.9 in Squeak but this won't
>happen this week.
>
>Cheers
>Lukas and Philippe
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