Leo Sutic wrote:
Niclas,
the problem I have with Merlin/Metro is this:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=avalon-dev&m=108965397729686&w=2
Do you have ANY idea just how incredibly hard it has been to develop for Merlin? I've been trying to get a whole platform out the door here at Sony and was held up for MONTHS because of the huge changes between Merlin 3.0 and Merlin 3.3.
Perhaps this was just a freak accident, where slight changes turned out to have large and unanticipated effects. Nevertheless, it is *precisely* the reason why Cocoon is migrating away from Avalon and is looking into Pier's kernel. The reason we're interested in it has not so much to do with classloading, strong contracts etc., which can be implemented if anyone cares enough for them. It's the fact that the Kernel is *completely under our control*, so we'll never have the system break because of changes to the kernel.
Therefore I'm +1 on Pier's kernel. I'm sure Merlin/Metro has a place somewhere, maybe inside the "blocks", maybe somewhere else, but considering switching to it at this point in time is simply reckless.
Bingo.
-- Stefano.
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