On 3/20/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nathan Bubna wrote: > > there have been VelocityStruts users eager for the Struts tags to be > > separated from the core for a long time. there's plenty of people > > using Struts without the tags. > > I didn't know that, thanks for pointing it out. Do the tags being there > hinder those users in any way though? Assuming not, and assuming my > belief that more Struts developers *DO* use the tags than don't (which > may not be true!) then I'm not sure it matters, and I would still > suggest the tags should be part of the core.
Not directly. But in so far as "extras" can hinder releases and sap development effort from the core, they do hinder the users. In general, one of the reasons i liked seeing the Struts "extras" pulled out of the core was the hope that bugs and slow development in such non-essential parts of Struts would no longer be a hinderance to fresh Struts core releases. It's a tough trade-off though, i admit. Either risk dependency confusion and frustration or else risk having good code be held back by "extras" that only a portion of the userbase is interested in. Personally, i prefer a little extra dependency complexity (and that preference even predates the usefulness of Maven and Ivy for such things) to the stifling of release frequency and freedom. > Frank > > -- > Frank W. Zammetti > Founder and Chief Software Architect > Omnytex Technologies > http://www.omnytex.com > AIM: fzammetti > Yahoo: fzammetti > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Java Web Parts - > http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net > Supplying the wheel, so you don't have to reinvent it! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
