Good work, by the way, Phil. Lord, how easy the developers on Struts could have done something similar. Thanks for at least showing them the way.
On 4/18/06, Phil Zoio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please allow me to shed a bit more light on a couple of your > observations/speculations. > > Regards, > Phil Zoio (Developer of Strecks) > > > My sense of things is that Strecks is another person's third-party > > effort. It is not part of the Struts project. Any new development you > > can expect from the Struts developers is bifurcating between Action2 > > (Webwork) and Shale. > > > > I would venture to guess, just as an outside observer, that if the > > author of Strecks is not given commit access to Struts itself, then he > > may run into limitations in the Struts codebase and end up making > > modifications to support things that Strecks needs, and end up with a > > forked version of the Struts 1.x code. > > Yes, if I could have my way I'd probably would have made a couple of > small changes to Struts to make my life a bit easier. On the whole, > though, I've accepted the constraints as given, and worked around them. > I have no intention of ending up with a forked version of Struts 1.x - > that would be defeating the whole point. > > > > > Of course, logically, if this guy is interested in developing further > > on top of Struts 1.x, and existing Struts committers aren't, he > > probably should be let in and Strecks might as well become Struts > > 1.3.x. or Struts 1.4.x and so on. > > I'd be happy to pass Strecks on to Struts itself if the community really > wanted it, but I don't see that as essential to its existence in any way. > > > > > Somehow, I don't think that's likely to happen though. *Probably* > > (note that I am speculating because I don't speak for others) the > > preference of the Struts people would be just to let the Struts 1.x > > codebase more or less rot and encourage people to move to Action2 or > > Shale. > > > > Jonathan Revusky > > -- > > lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~
