RE: [Freemarker-devel] where is the old API doc

[Steven S. <st...@do...>]

I will personally be using it. But the company will not. So I will be around


-----Original Message-----
From: fre...@li...
[mailto:fre...@li...]On Behalf Of Attila
Szegedi
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:25 AM
To: fre...@li...
Subject: Re: [Freemarker-devel] where is the old API doc


Hi Steve,

I guess that if you really wanted, you could stick with an older release for
some time if it works for you. I  personally maintain a web site where I
still use FM 1.7 - all templates were written for it, and I too don't have
time to update.

Another choice could be to give us early feedback noting that this API is
significant for you, and you'd like it if we'd keep it - even if flagged as
deprecated.

As yet another possibility, you can always turn to us on this list if you
hit a problem. I think that generally we have a very low reply latency,
suitable for supporting commercial usage of the FreeMarker.

We did change the API between 1.7.x and 2.0 significantly. This is why it
got a new major version number. We also changed the API between 2.0 and 2.1
as well altough maybe less significantly. You are right that we are moving
fast - sometimes maybe too fast. Also, I'm not sure how big is your code
base, but with an IDE that has good refactoring support (i.e. Eclipse, which
is free) you can relatively easily catch up. We do our best to track
significant changes in
http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/changes.html

In this concrete situation, BeansWrapper.wrap() now replaces all
XxxModel.getInstance() calls. To be true, I don't remember we had
getInstance methods on bean models since they were moved to f.ext.beans.
Last time they existed should have been when they were still known as
org.szegedi.expose.reflect package, so the API change you mention is likely
an 1.7 -> 2.0 change.

Anyway, if your decision is final and you don't give us another chance then
we can do nothing except to respect it...

Cheers (in hope we'll still hear from you),
  Attila.

--
Attila Szegedi
home: http://www.szegedi.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Sajous" <st...@do...>
To: <fre...@li...>
Sent: 2002. július 24. 15:49
Subject: [Freemarker-devel] where is the old API doc


> I am having a real hard time with the updates. I really like the product
but
> I think that as a company we have made the decision to move away from
> FreeMarker. Your updates are very frequent which on the surface is great
but
> the backward compatibility is not there. I am looking for docs on
> freemarker.ext.beans.CollectionModel.getInstance( ... ) only to see that
it
> does not exist at all anymore which would tell me that I would get the new
> release and go back and look for whatever no longer exists and find what
> replaces it and fix my code. Unfortunately in the business we are in we
> cannot afford the time to do this. This is the second time in less than 6
> months this has happened and we cannot afford to use this anymore I am
> afraid. It works great but the developers really need to take that into
> consideration.
>
> Steven Sajous
> Application Engineer, Dotmarketing Inc.
> http://www.dotmarketing.com
>
>



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