> My experience with building an extension system for Radiant tells me > that it is. Radiant extensions provide an app directory with places > for controllers, views, and models--just like Rails--and the whole > thing seems extremely heavyweight.
The reality is that your use case is a tiny subset of the total number of rails users. Most of us are trying to solve a specific problem, rather than trying to glue together 'mini apps'. Rails is a web development framework, not a chunk of glue for plugins. > Please, set the issues of backwards compatibility aside or personal > preference and argue with merit alone. We have hundreds of thousands of downloads now. Setting aside backwards compatibility isn't an option. As for merit, your proposal only makes sense if we believe that reusable mini apps will ever be a viable technique for the majority of developers. That's debatable at best. I can't see what is to stop you from releasing a plugin which uses our current configuration options for controller model and view paths to supports this functionality. Before we'd seriously consider including this kind of functionality it would have to be *seriously* battle tested, and considered an improvement by everyone that tried it. -- Cheers Koz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
