Chapter 6

[Randinn]

You may want need to update 6.1.2 Setting Up the Database Connection
as the example no longer looks like the current DBVendor.

[Tyler Weir]

We're in a bit of a difficult position, as the target of the book is 1.0.

Due to lift's nature of snapshots being stable enough to use day to
day, most people are on the bleeding edge.

Maybe we need to fork the repo and edit it for 1.1.
I'm not sure what best course of action is.

Tyler

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http://www.tylerweir.ca

[Ross Mellgren]

Personally I think targetting 1.0 is probably a bad idea since the
very first piece of advice most everyone gets on the official support
channel (e.g. lif...@groups.google.com) is that they should
immediately switch to 1.1-SNAPSHOT or one of the milestones :-)

Making the online version reflect 1.1 seems like a good thing to me.

My 2¢,
-Ross

[Tyler Weir]

Targeting the bleeding edge of a framework for a book is impossible.
It's even harder if that book goes to print.

Try to understand the genesis of our decision.


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http://www.tylerweir.ca

[Ross Mellgren]

Oh I figured you meant by forking the repo you mean the online version
only. Obviously targetting SNAPSHOT for printed material is a non-
starter.

-Ross

[Ross Mellgren]

Also, rereading my email I realize that I came off as dinging your
decision to target 1.0 for the printed book -- I didn't mean that at
all. I understand the decision to make the book target 1.0 is a good
one since 1.1 is changing constantly and paper doesn't. I intended to
be talking about the online version only.

-Ross

On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Tyler Weir wrote:

>

[Randinn]

Ah, true enough.

On Nov 11, 1:02 am, Tyler Weir <tyler.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're in a bit of a difficult position, as the target of the book is 1.0.
>
> Due to lift's nature of snapshots being stable enough to use day to
> day, most people are on the bleeding edge.
>
> Maybe we need to fork the repo and edit it for 1.1.
> I'm not sure what best course of action is.
>
> Tyler
>

> -------------------------------------http://www.tylerweir.ca

[Randinn]

Very true, I usually take that into consideration before I ask a
question, make a comment, I'm sorry I didn't in this case.

On Nov 11, 3:22 am, Tyler Weir <tyler.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Targeting the bleeding edge of a framework for a book is impossible.
> It's even harder if that book goes to print.
>
> Try to understand the genesis of our decision.
>

> -------------------------------------http://www.tylerweir.ca

>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Ross Mellgren <dri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Personally I think targetting 1.0 is probably a bad idea since the
> > very first piece of advice most everyone gets on the official support

> > channel (e.g. lift...@groups.google.com) is that they should

> > immediately switch to 1.1-SNAPSHOT or one of the milestones :-)
>
> > Making the online version reflect 1.1 seems like a good thing to me.
>
> > My 2¢,
> > -Ross
>
> > On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Tyler Weir wrote:
>
> >> We're in a bit of a difficult position, as the target of the book is
> >> 1.0.
>
> >> Due to lift's nature of snapshots being stable enough to use day to
> >> day, most people are on the bleeding edge.
>
> >> Maybe we need to fork the repo and edit it for 1.1.
> >> I'm not sure what best course of action is.
>
> >> Tyler
>
> >> -------------------------------------
> >>http://www.tylerweir.ca
>

[Derek Chen-Becker]

Once Lift 1.1 is stable I'll commit to a major rework of the book targetting it. For now I'm trying to keep up with minor updates as I have time.

Derek