Discovery of it's parts. Franky the documentation is lacking and even
with reading the mailing list, reading the howtos wiki, buying the
Tapestry 5 book and working with it for over a year I still come across
things I never knew existed that would have solved a problem I've had. I
often spend ages writing something myself after searching for a solution.
What's beautiful about Tapestry? That almost every problem has a simple
solution built in. What's not beautiful about Tapestry? That I generally
find these solutions by accident, and way after I've written my own!
Lots of things are obvious and easy to understand once you know what
they are but it's learning what they are that is the problem. I've been
waxing lyrical about Tapestry where I work and while the developers who
tried it love it, their main gripe is always that it's difficult to
understand what it can do.
The cookbook is the right idea but it's only got 5 entries right now. It
needs to be way more comprehensive
Inge Solvoll wrote:
Hi!
I have been reading the "beautiful" thread and added my opinion about what's
great about Tapestry. It's nice to sum up why we all are so excited about
this, it obviously makes both us and the creator(s) feel good about
ourselves. But for a little while, I challenge us all to stop tapping each
others' backs and go into depth about what's not to like about our beloved
framework.
The most obvious questions that could be asked probably have some very
obvious answers. But T5, as I see it, is all about addressing stuff that
other frameworks have given up on and create excellent implementations
rather than just looking the other way. Difficult and uncomfortable
questions should be addressed the same way.
So:
What are the main reasons that T5 isn't one of the "big ones", when we all
seem to agree that it is so much better than most other frameworks out
there? Why is T5 NOT beautiful?
Hope I'm not insulting anyone, I'm a big fan too, I just think this actually
could lead to significant insight :)
Regards
Inge
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