You've been too active with technical issues on the list to be labeled a troll... unless Rob has a split personality and you are the side that actually knows something. Hmmm. An interesting email address, BTW, given the topic of conversation :-)
And he (Rob) does have a point on backward compatibility, but like someone who keeps telling the same joke again and again and often at inappropriate times, he has become an annoyance. He also shrinks into the shadows any time he is asked what motivates him to persist. Jonathan > -----Original Message----- > From: Yura Tkachenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:17 PM > To: Tapestry users > Subject: Re: AW: AW: Getting Answers on the User List > > I hope after reading my post you won't add me to this page - > http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5Trolls > I really want to defend Rob :-) Since some of his points are real problems > of Tapestry. > I will say it again: backward compatibility. > Of course major releases shouldn't be compatible, i.e. 1.0 version not > necessary compatible with 2.0. But 1.0 should be compatible with 1.1. But > at > the same time T4 wasn't compatible with T3 and T4 is not compatible with > T5. > And after that story who will believe in words like: "Tapestry 5 does not > even attempt to be backwards compatible to Tapestry 4. Instead, it lays > the > ground work for true backwards compatibility going forwards." (resource - > http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5/, section "Backwards Compatibility"). > Because in the past nobody cared about backwards compatibility we now have > a > problem that T5 is using org.apache.tapestry package and T4 is using the > same package. As the result if I have a project with T4 and decided to use > T5 with new cool features I just simply can't do that. > Of course, in the real world nobody does fully backwards compatibility, > every time we have issues during migrating to new version of some product. > Even JDK 1.5 not fully backwards compatible with JDK 1.4. > > But at the same time Tapestry 5 is a great framework with a lot of great > features. > > Thanks, > Yura. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
