[birt-dev] Problems with getNamedExpressionValue() in 2.5.0 (release) an

[wlanmac <wlan@xxxxxxx>]

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=284380

Hello, above is the URL of a bug item I added on the same topic. 

I just upgrade from a previous milestone of 2.5.0 (M5 or M6, I believe)
and my reports are broken in the 2.5.0 release version. At the core of
the problem is:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.ir.Expression$Script cannot be cast to java.lang.String
	at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.script.internal.instance.ReportElementInstance.getNamedExpressionValue(ReportElementInstance.java:77)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.mozilla.javascript.MemberBox.invoke(MemberBox.java:160)
	... 78 more

I'm using named expressions for "Top N by rank" as described here:
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.birt/msg23286.html

Used to work great... now severely broken. Is there any other suggested
way of doing such a chart? 

Also, now that 2.5.0 was officially released, I can't find any previous
2.5.0 builds on the eclipse.org website. I suppose I could find them in
the mirror sites, but wanted to know why previous builds are no longer
available officially? 

Thanks,

David