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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Maris.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Maris Fogels<maris.fogels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All the fix sites can be found by grepping the source files.  The real
> unknown, and potential time sink, is upgrading lazr.PrettyOverlay() and
> lazr.AutoComplete, since those get close to the guts of the implementation.
>
> The other big problem is deploying the new version of lazr-js.  You can not
> mix and match the lazr-js, Launchpad, and YUI versions.  Right now the
> upgrade will be "all or nothing", and I really don't like that.  If anyone
> has a suggestion as to how we can tackle this, then please let me know.

I think it's not just lazr-js that we need to consider here.  We are
approaching 10,000 lines of JavaScript in
lib/canonical/launchpad/javascript, all of which will break on
upgrade.  If it has to be an all or nothing upgrade, it's going to be
quite a lot of work actually.

Cheers,
deryck

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