Hi Jonathan, thank you for this in-depth coverage of the advantages of FreeMarker over Velocity. Let me tell you how the decision not to include the patch was done:
I asked Sebastian: What's the business value of having a different scripting engine in AndroMDA? Sebastian replied: I don't know. That was it! Any patch that we include in the code base should cause an increase in business value of the AndroMDA product for the end user. "Increase in business value" means that with the new feature, a user gets more advantage out of his time that (s)he invests in trying out a new release of AndroMDA. I could not evaluate Freemarker myself due to time restrictions, so I took Sebastian's answer for granted that the increase in business value was unknown. In the meantime, Anthony Mowers has replied to the original patch and has expressed my thoughts much more politely and accurately (see his posting of 2003-07-05 23:43 in the patch manager web page http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=758752&group_id =73047&atid=536547 ). Well, having read what you have told me about the features of Freemarker, I would say it is at least worthwhile to make the coupling between AndroMDA and the scripting engine looser so that any skillful user can replace it easily by Freemarker if (s)he likes to do so. How do you feel about Anthony's anxiety to split the user base and about my proposal above? Cheers... Matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Jonathan Revusky > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Andromda-devel] FreeMarker support in Andromda > > > Andromda developers, > > It came to my attention a little while ago that Sebastian Glita > submitted a patch for FreeMarker support and this was rejected. Now, > it's your project, and you can do what you want, but I think it is > perfectly proper for me to write you a note explaining why, in my > opinion, your rejection of the patch was mistaken. > > ... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Andromda-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-devel
