[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Dojo Release 1.2.0

[Mike Rylander]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dojo released 1.2.0 a few days ago; here are my findings as of last
> night (yay planes) with a quick run-through of Conify and Vandelay:
>
>  * no more dojo.js.uncompressed.js - so in those few places where we
> did call it, we would need to just point at dojo.js instead (a
> debugging version must still be available but our defaults in
> delivered files should point to dojo.js anyway)
>  * dojox.grid._data.* has moved to dojox.grid.compat._data.* (this is
> now deprecated and will no longer be maintained - a new Grid has been
> added that will be the preferred grid going forward)
>  * dojox.grid.editors has moved to dojox.grid.compat._data.editors

That's more change than I'd hoped for (or thought there would be) but
obviously not unmanageable. :)

>
> I have attached a patch for Conify; no changes were needed for
> Vandelay. My testing was largely to the point of getting things
> working without JS errors in Conify and Vandelay, and testing date
> picker widget / display in the OPAC, but nothing deeper.
>
> So the question: should we switch to 1.2.0 using these compatibility
> mechanisms so that the prereq will already be in place if we decide to
> rewrite to use the new "easier-to-use" Grids? Or maybe it's a moot
> point because we're going to sidestep the problem by packaging our own
> Dojo build for EG anyway.
>

If we have a patch, and the JS loads, then I'm for upping the version of Dojo.

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