Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/16/05, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, they may have created a library class that does the job for >> them. Figuring out which is which seemed to be the point of this >> thread. > > I guess my summary of the thread was that a library is built to do one > thing, while a framework is built to tie many libraries together to do > a series of connected things. If you end up using libraries in the > same way all of the time, that's the beginning of a framework.
Having read the thread, it seems that most of the suggested definitions don't agree with yours. > Neither is better, IMO. They exist at completely different levels in > completely different domains. I think everyone would agree with that. They're obviously different things, and you can generally tell which is which when you're looking at one, but defining them? That's hard. I like the concise "Your code calls a library. A framework calls your code", but I'm not sure it's right. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list