Re: [Exist-development] Some thoughts about betterforms @ exist

[Dannes W. <da...@ex...>]

Hi.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Joern Turner
<joe...@go...>wrote:

> Yes, i know Saxon is in endorsed and we rely on this now (not bundling
> our own any more)
>

Ok....



> I fear you mean saxon 9.2 don't you? I just spend 3 hours on Monday to
> make our code run with 9.1.0.8 which (due to my last info) is the
> current vesion used in eXist. We still used 9.0. If i'd known that you
> want to switch quickly to 9.2 i had not done that upgrade to 9.1.
>

Sorry, i do not have the intention to waste development time. The thing is
however that we already had dependencies with Saxon 9.2: the ant target
"download-saxon" downloads a 9.2 version for some time ago, and also the
xmlcalabash extension has a dependency there. That is why the latter does
not build anymore, due to the 9.0/9.1 version>

Bit unhappy about that but anyway - must be done one day anyway.
>
Sorry :-(


> Please let me know when the upgrade to 9.2 comes.
>

On my behalf... ASAP. The work around is to put the 9.2 jar into lib/user
for this moment.
So... if your code works with 9.2 .. the rest of exist is OK.




> And yes, we have deep dependency on Saxon as its the XPath engine we
> use and all of the XPath 2, XForms and custom functions are
> implemented using Saxon so changes here are the most critical issue in
> a tight integration of eXist and betterFORM. We should coordinate on
> version upgrades in time to avoid breaking code.
>

Ok, i was not aware of the dependency until the build failed.


cheers

Dannes

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