DrupalCampNYC 4 gives ImageCache 1.x some loving...

I had a great time at DrupalCampNYC....

I stuck myself in the Hack Shack, where I should probably keep myself as jaded as I've been lately. Ate me some tasty Bagels and got to help a few folks out... I even gave a presentation on workflow in Drupal 5 (Yes I occasionally show for my sessions.).

I think the best part was actually getting to work first hand with a difficult imagecache permissions issue Nat Meysenburg from OpenFlows was having... There are a slew of things that can go wrong working with imagecache... Apache's Rewrite Rules, Permissions, Drupal Files Config, corrupt images, lock files.... I always have a difficult time divining what problems people are having from my issue queue... It always ends up being a long round of question and answer before I figure out an issue if I ever do...

In my on going frustration with supporting imagecache. I added a few permissions fixes to get a 1.4(borked) and 1.5 out. I started thinking ImageCache 1.x is *really* crufty compared to 2.x. It's just a little bit cleaner than the proof of concept it originally started as. So I've taken the last two days to back port the Header responses from 2.x, add a lot more watchdog calls, fix up the lock file handling, and remove some of the stuff that I look at now and go, "what was I thinking?".

After releasing a broken 1.4, I'm a little gun shy about rolling 1.6 right now from 1.x-dev. I would love some brave souls to check out the DRUPAL-5 branch or wait till tomorrow and test out the snapshot As soon as I get 3-4 not brokens I'll go about a release...

.darrel.