On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Wil Genovese <jugg...@trunkful.com> wrote: > This is most likely the problem that Sean was referring to. Being responsive > to the community is one thing, being overly responsive is a problem. Just > because one person asks for something and three more chime in with "me to > +++++++++++1" does not make the request 'community driven'. Sean was saying > Railo needs to wait and see what parts of their flavor of CFML become > popular. This means too many requests are added too quickly without proper > market research.
It's also important to consider the difference between the core language - which needs to be compatible across all engines for those engines to be useful - and the rest of the "CFML stuff". So Railo can easily implement new administrator features, networked caches and all manner of extensions based on the needs of a few but when it comes to the language, much more care must be taken. A great example is for-in for arrays in cfscript. Railo has supported var in such loops for a long time and had for-in on arrays long before the committee considered it. The committee picked a different implementation but since no one but Railo had implemented it, there was no compatibility issue (insofar as code that ran on Adobe / OpenBD behaved the same on Railo). With CF9.0.1 adding for-in array matching the committee spec, Railo changed their for-in array implementation to match - breaking some existing Railo code because core language compatibility is important (and there will probably be an Administrator setting added to allow legacy Railo code to continue to execute as-is). > To me Railo seems to be adding to their flavor of CFML as fast as the > children say 'ooh, I want'. This results in a fat bloated language spec (and > fat children). And yet the Adobe ColdFusion uses far more disk space and RAM than OpenBD or Railo... :) -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335641 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
