Re: [WebMacro-user] 2.0 release

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On Fri, 27 May 2005, Marc Palmer wrote:

| > Greetings,
| >
| > For the 2.0 release, I am planning the following with respect to
| > webmacro/contrib:
|
| Great work Lane.
|
| > the jsp and spring integration projects would be desireable to include
| > in contrib/
|
| Well Keats said to me he thinks it should go in the main tree. I don't
| think this stuff should go in contrib because it will languish in
| obscurity there.

I feel it has nothing to do in the main tree. At all.

If it languishes into obscurity in the contrib section, then so be it. WM
"proper"/"core" should be a thight templating language, not a bunch of
nice-to-haves.

I think JSP and Spring is very useful, and people will probably use it,
given that it has some amount of documentation. But is should pretty much
-never- enter core, as this isn't anything that WM needs to work.

Keats said:

| Maybe a general "WM Adapters" subproject could incorporate JSP, Spring,
| and Struts integration along with any other framework that folks want to
| support.  We could kick off the subproject in conjunction with the WM
| 2.0 release.

This I find interesting, but what about just sticking it into a jar inside
the WM distro? Like a contrib, but with a purpose?

Note that you anywhichway can't change package names and such, if
compatiblity is an issue at all.

Remeber that WM is pretty much dying, and that someone mentioned that the
2.0 probably will be one of the final releases ever. DOn't have too many
grand plans going along with it. The 2.0 -might- kick off new revived
interest in the project, but please don't get your hopes and visions up
too much before this actually happens.

E