Michael, I'd rather you didn't tell other people what my views are (as you seem to get it wrong most of the time). Although I wrote most of the wiki page your refer to, Martin Cooper added the warning.
Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McGrady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:01 AM Subject: Re: File Upload > Hello, Martin, > > What I am saying is very simple, and I am not sure what is the difficulty. > > >As I've said, you are absolutely free to handle file uploads however you want. > > > > > The whole point is that this is not the case. The whole point is that > the present arrangement ties people to a specific way of dealing with > file uploads that is not essential to Struts and what is presently done > could be provided without difficulty without creating these > dependencies. That seems to me to be a really clear positive. Why you > are adverse to decoupling the present file upload application is simply > a mystery to me. > > If I want to use the framework and ActionForm (which I do) and do not > want to use the file upload application that is tied to Struts, I have > to rewrite Struts or to write a pretty ugly work-around. My point was > that the file upload application seemingly could be decoupled from the > framework giving options without impacting the present implementation > for those that want it.. You seemingly would prefer to have it > coupled. Why I cannot discern. I don't see the advantage in that. In > order to respond to your note about "bloat", I suggested once again, > that implementing extensions might be worthwhile. > > Niall Pemberton seemingly is clear that the present application itself > is going to change and warns about that on the wiki. If there were an > interface that allowed alternative implementations without changing the > interface itself, that would be far preferrable, I would think. I am > sure of it, in fact. I am surprised you are not sure of it. I really > don't understand your position at all. You seem to want to > unnecessarily couple the present file upload application to the > framework. Why? > > Michael McGrady > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
