How's about tapioca as a name suggestion? It has references to tapestry and ioc. :) On 21 Jul 2014 14:38, "Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo" <thiag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 05:02:28 -0300, Lance Java <lance.j...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > I asked this question before I was a committer and generally got good >> feedback but it never really went anywhere. >> >> I think having tapestry-ioc and tapestry (the web framework) is a bit >> confusing. I also feel that it hinders the promotion / adoption of >> tapestry-ioc as a standalone product. >> > > I'm not sure what to think about this. Mixed feelings. I've posted before > that it would have been better for Tapestry-IoC for it to not have > 'Tapestry' in its name and Howard agreed. But, now, I'm not sure a rename > would do more harm or good. Tapestry 5, both web framework and IoC, had its > first final release in April 12, 2009, five years ago. There's already lots > of documentation and blog posts and etc about it, so a rename for avoiding > confusion would end up causing more confusion of its own. > > I agree with Bob about not ressurecting old product names. It would add > more confusion. HiveMind was XML-heavy, and Tapestry-IoC is XML-free. Maybe > Tapestry 5 itself shouldn't have been named Tapestry, for the same reason, > as it was a rewrite for scratch. > > Regarding the development cycle, I don't think right now it's a speed bump > for Tapestry-IoC. As an IoC core (kernel?), it's a mature product. Its last > major change I could remember was the copying of service implementation > annotations to the corresponding service proxies. Before that, live class > reloading for service implementations and JSR 303's @Inject support. I > guess the features Tapestry-IoC would most benefit from now on don't need > changes in itself, but additional packages that integrate it with other > stuff. Of course, other people may see things differently, and I love to > discuss it. > > Summary: I wish Tapestry-IoC had another name and that it wasn't HiveMind > (maybe Collective?), but IMHO it's too late to rename it, even if I think > discussing it is a very good thing. > > -- > Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo > Tapestry, Java and Hibernate consultant and developer > http://machina.com.br > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
