Drupal 5.x

There is a link to a third-party 5.x version submitted here in another issue.

If someone bothered to post the needed changes from that as a patch here in the issue tracker, I would certainly commit and release a 5.x version.

Arto, I am thinking only people interested in the module will do the work. People already using the ported module may not be reading this.

anyone wanting to make that patch file for arto should download the files from http://www.drupal.ru/repo/modules/boost/5.x/ and run diff command. to be nice, please make sure everything works too.

Attached is a tested patch from the link moshe weitzman posted. Everything seems to work fine, from patching to caching!

Hopefully this will lead to a developed 5.x version and a 6.x tree not too long in the future.

Jacob

Thanks guys - having a look now.

Thanks for answering #163922, I should have carried out a search before posting!

What you've highlighted in your response outlines just how important this module is to high traffic websites. Looking forward to seeing a D5.x branch and please campaign HARD to get at least some of this into D6.x

I now have the 5.x version working, with some additional bug fixes on top of the above patch. FYI, I've been tasked by a client to implement CSS/JS aggregation in Boost, so that will go first into the 4.7 branch and then JS aggregation forward-ported to the 5.x branch (given that D5 already has CSS aggregation built-in).

Dee: I don't think I have the time and energy for campaigning for core inclusion, and IMHO the Drupal core should be as minimal as possible (much more minimal than it is at present, even). But others can feel free to campaign if they want it :-)

Changeset [76511] imports a 5.x version of Boost, based on Axel's work and Jacob's patch. Thanks guys!

The 5.x snapshot should be available for download within 12 hours. I'll roll a 1.0 release for both 4.7 and 5.x once some days have gone by without any critical bugs being reported by anyone. (The CSS/JS aggregation features I mentioned are slated for release 1.1.)