So Don, now that you've taken this on and figured out what's going on
with the current code, what pagination do your recommend OpenACS use
going forward? The old crappy List Builder pagination? The
improved-by-Don but still Evil pagination? Something basically based
on Jon Griffin's paginator procs? Or what?
I'm actually rather astonished that this thread seems to have
generated so much debate. The List Builder's built-in pagination
sucks, this has been well known for a long time. Lars wrote all of
List Builder, and if I remember correctly, he himself has said in
these Forums that its built-in pagination sucks and should be fixed.
Jon Griffin's paginations procs are not "new", they've been around for
at least a year now (maybe two). Several people have used them (I
have not), and everyone who has seems to agree that they are a major
improvement over the existing lousy List Builder pagination.
Joel, your heart is in the right place, but you're putting up straw
men. If the toolkit is broken, it needs to be fixed - and AFAICT
everyone who's examined the issue seems to agree that the List Builder
pagination is definitely broken. If there is insufficient,
contradictory, or just plain misleading documentation, then that is
also a breakage that needs to be fixed - but that second
breakage is in no way a justification for stopping someone from fixing
the first breakage.
By all means, change the proc names or do whatever else is necessary
or desirable to integrate Jon's pagination implementation smoothly
into OpenACS - but do it! Now, if Don has figured out an even better
solution, way cool, but please, somebody pick one of the
improvements available and actually put it into the toolkit.
