[thelist] CF 5.0 beta 1 released - FOR RAY

[Daniel J. Cody]

Hi Ray -

I was reading the new features list for CF5.0 at beta.allaire.com and 
was wondering what is going to be great from your POV?

 From what I've read, but admittadly haven't yet tried, this doesn't 
appear to be a .0 release. Other than the new administrator application 
and the 'query of a query' features, this doesn't seem like much more 
than an enchancement release to fix some CF tags.

I understand that the whole thing is being rebuilt on a J2EE base, and 
thats cool. What I'd really like to see - and I'm sure I'm not the only 
one - is Allaire/MM fix the current problems that plauge the CF app 
server. Three I can name off the top of my head are <cfschedule> not 
working on linux correctly, <cfpop> and its rather idiotic way of 
parsing date/time stamps(or the lack of any parsing at all), and pretty 
much every filesystem orientated tag(cffile, cfexecute, etc) on the Unix 
platforms.

Please don't take this as a bitch session to you personally or anything 
like that :)

But I think its sad when a company doesn't fix the problems in the 
current release of its product before introducing a whole new version! 
with new features! and new functionality! and new blah!.. Everyone 
bitches about how MS for example should fix the crap in their current OS 
before introducing a new one that doesn't address any of the problems in 
the previous version, but adds new features! ...

*shrug* My point is, I don't really need or want 'Crystal Reports 8.0 
Integration Enhancement'(i just read features for beta2 in the middle of 
this, sorry :).. I dont even use Crystal reports.. I just want my fuckin 
<cfpop> and <cfschedule> tags to work on linux like they're supposed to 
work.. If I could get a good solid version of CF - a product I use and 
love - for linux in which everything worked like it was supposed to, I'd 
be tickled pink. As it appears to be going, I have to stagger from 
release to feature bloated release picking up other bugs and features 
I'll never use in the quest to get my *current* applications working 
correctly..

*phew* Again, thats not directed at you or your personal work in any way 
or form.. Feel free to forward that to anyone inside your company that 
can/will/does listen to CF developers, or people that can give me some 
source so I can fix the problems myself :)

.djc.


Raymond Camden wrote:

> Well, not sure what I can say. I mean, I think CF 5.0 is going to be great, but as you
> can imagine, I'm a bit biased. :> If anyone has any specific questions, let me know.
> 
> --- martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com wrote: