> As far as email goes - personally, I'd rather Appengine shut down the > email API and put those developers to work on something else. Email >
I agree, completely... well almost completely... Keep the current basic email to help newbies play and test, but minimize devoting any further significant resources and possibly relabel that api as beta/experimental or at least as not destined to receive lots of attention right away, to be up front about it. It's a non-trivial, high-nuisance service to provide/maintain. -A -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ <-- Create a Facebook or Google App Engine app in a minute without installing anything > is something that many other providers do well, and there's no > particular benefit to having it built in (getting two bills is truly a > "first world problem"). I'd rather Google focus on the hard problems > which can't easily be implemented by third parties - spatial indexes, > pull queue grouping, transactional task deleting, etc. These enable > whole new solution domains. Think about the major new features that > the GAE team has rolled out in the last year... the HRD, XG > transactions, Backends, Exploding Index Repellant, Pull Queues, > Memcache CAS, Deferred Tasks, Cursors, Async Datastore Operations... > every time one of these features comes out I think "How did I ever > write code without this?" That's what I want more of. > > Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
