If you have two blocks in the avalon sandbox, you could share them between them, but there is no (easy? elegant?) way you can pass them arond *OUTSIDE* the sandbox and still allow blocks to be hotswappable and runtime polymorphic.
[I would gladly be proven wrong here!]
write a failing testcase that doens't require me to understand every little detail of cocoon internals and I could try.
I just totally fail to see what restrictions you think are intrinsic to avalon-framework-compatible components for preventing container feature X or feature Y from working.
I understand the decision to move away from /depending/ on o.a.avalon.* based on stuff like community dynamics, but I totally fail to understand is the technical part of the rationale that, comes after that decision, that says backwards (and forward, in fact) /compatibility/ is not possible or not possible cleanly.
You're taking a rather firm stance without having code in place that proves your point. I can imagine people "freaking out" at big architectural change for a reason that is not understood and may not even exist.
Is this clear enough?
nope :-D
if not, I'm glad to keep answering questions.
- What problem are you solving that can't be solved if a component requires (for example) that the container honours the Servicable contract?
- Why not?
- Have you actually tried it?
- Where did it fail?
Apologies for jumping onto this topic like this, but I've just spent half a year exploring solutions to these kinds of things and so far I just haven't encountered any fundamental issue which you seem to be fearing exists. When you say "not elegantly possible" people believe it and that may be a bad thing if you're wrong ;)
-- cheers,
- Leo Simons
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