Not very good news to the Tapestry project this one! Here and there the IDE and Tools support for tapestry issue arise and all kinds of opinions are issued. A fact is that every platform needs to have IDE support in order for a very good chunk of the programmer community to accept a framework. Is this aspect Tapestry has just become poorer, and that is a bad, sad thing!
1st of all, I believe Geoff deserves all of our recognition for the enormous effort he has enforced over the last years for the Tapestry community. I have been using Tapestry 4 since it's beta release and I for one can cry out loud for the so needed Sindle IDE plugin support of Tap 4! But we cant all continue to rely on the back off one person to carry the needs of us all! So thanks for all Geoff, you did more than one could ask of you, and I wish all the best! Now, here I go again and raise the IDE question once more. When will this aspect of Tapestry be taken in consideration like a must have feature of the platform for every version of it? I use Tapestry every day. It is obvious that my productivity suffers from the run-time syntax checking reality. The mistyped parameter, the not respected DTD for the .jwc or .page files, etc etc. One loves this framework, it's obvious otherwise we would not use it... but the IDE IS THAT MUCH a difference! I think the exception reports are simply fantastic. No other framework has that much details or clarity, but lets face it, we want that in our IDE, we want the autocompletion the for template files ou the specificatios files, we should not need to know a components parameters by heart in order to use them. It does not make sence. Tapestry is so much ahead of other frameworks in so many aspects and is this needy in this area for so long and it seems will become even more lost in this aspect! Well, I guess now Hugo (TapIDEA) has been left out there alone in the Tapestry plugin no-man's land! It sounds really lonely doesn't it? How long till he is also overwhelmed by the lonely task? Let's wait and see... Best of luck to you Geoff, and courage and lots of coffee to you Hugo! :-( Sorry for those who do not agree to spam the list's purpose with these remarks, but I simply could not help it after taking in the new Spindle project reality! Best regards, On 8/27/06, Josh Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, I for one am sorry to see any ready and willing go, no matter what the circumstances... but I hope things get to where they need to be for you. :-) FWIW, I never used the Spindle plugin but have seen a few colleagues adopt tapestry at my behest because there was (even relatively immature, at that point) tooling support available through Spindle.. Best of luck, Josh On 8/26/06, Geoff Longman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been a blast... > > http://jroller.com/page/glongman?entry=time_to_move_on > > Geoff > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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