Hi Puneet, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish@gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations once again, and tremendous thanks for a program that has brought a smile and a hop-step back in the stride of Perl developers everywhere.
Thank you. As you probably know, you were a major part in this by contributing a lot of time for finding and insisting on bugs, which helped improved Dancer substantially - especially in the UTF8 aspect which was the biggest point of improvement, at least in my opinion.
how does one upgrade an existing application?
Good point. We do not (yet) have an upgrading mechanism. This means you will need to upgrade the scripts manually. We should (and will) allow the `dancer` application to upgrade the deployment scripts.
I want to know where the breakage occurs so I can fix them easily.
You can go over the changes file and read what we changed (and sometimes even why). Most changes are in core and you shouldn't be affected by them. We also took care to "deprecate" methods. That means that if you're doing something which is deprecated you will only get a warning. This version tries not to break anything. The next stable version might, however, generate some deprecation fails. The idea is to still alert users something is deprecated. The following version would probably remove the unnecessary (or problematic feature). At least that's the idea we have for our deprecation policy. The main point you should take from the previous paragraph is: 1.2000 tries not to introduce breakage but warn you of future breakage. You should probably report any odd breakage you experience, if you do.
Another thing... both applications were started as a scaffolded application. [...] some of the default CSS/404 pages, etc. won't get upgraded. I don't see any way to upgrade them other than creating an empty, new scaffolded app and then cherry pick and upgrade the pages.
Since the scaffolded design is just to get you started, and not to provide you with a production template, we do not (and probably won't - though I can't promise) work on a upgrade mechanism for it. We'll have to MD5 all the files to assure you haven't changed everything, allow you to force upgrade and it's possible we'll ran over someone's attempt to stay with the old design. It's important to have a nice layout to begin with (and that's what we tried), but the design will probably not be upgraded as part of any mechanism. Of course, as with anything involving Dancer, if you step up to the plate with ideas and ability to work on them, things might be different. :) Sawyer.