[OpenLayers-Dev] RC5 prop

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:28:50PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> On Friday, May 29, 2009, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> > So, Pierre and Andreas worked out:
> >
> >   http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1797#comment:22
> >
> > To likely be a Google API change.  As I understand it, this:
> >
> >     * CHanged something that worked when we fixed it, to something that
> >       didn't
> >     * Was a change due to a GMaps API change
> >     * Was something that we put a lot of effort into fixing
> >     * Affects MapFish/GeoExt (and probably other JS Frameworks with
> >     * flexible map sizes)
> >
> > As a result, I think it's worth including in 2.8: It was worth it the
> > first time, it's still worth it this time (even though we aren't
> > responsible for the regression, we've still got to deal with it.)
> >
> > IF this ticket doesn't affect people (I think it does -- i just emailed
> > the geoext list about it, and pierre bumped into it, after all) then we
> > can bump it, but otherwise, it's worth another RC.
> >
> > So, if anyone else agrees with me -- and I'd especially like to hear
> > from GeoExt or MapFish people who can confirm that this is actually an
> > issue, and is now fixed -- then I say I roll an RC5 this afternoon.
> 
> 
> It indeed affects GeoExt - Google layers within a map panel do not
> display. I'll test Andreas' latest patch on Tuesday (said Monday in
> the ticket but realized Monday is off for me) and will report back in
> the ticket.

Well, a GeoExt user was able to confirm that 2.8-rc4 did not work, and
using Google.js from trunk did, so I'm happy enough saying that this has
been tested with GeoExt for the problem reported. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta