Hamilton, please do prototype something, that would be really nice.

Cheers John

On 17/07/2010, at 1:30, hammett <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm biased, but I'd favor extensibility. One - if not the - key factor
> for Windsor success is its extensibility. I'd like to see MonoRail as
> a minimal core with strong extension points. An user can "put
> together" a flavor of MR that meet his needs. Extensions work
> side-by-side. I'd love to prototype something along these lines if the
> idea resonates with the rest of you.
> 
> And yes, I agree with Henry. It should be compatible with MVC - which
> is not difficult.
> 
> 
> 
> 2010/7/16 Henry Conceição <[email protected]>:
>> I totally agree that we should have very clearly and well defined mission
>> and must be focused on it. And that we should not play catch with Ms.
>> 
>> I think that productivity is still valid, but the magnitude have changed. In
>> the past was a webforms x mvc comparison, but today we have many tools that
>> are good as monorail is.
>> 
>> Another great change imo, is that today we have an ecosystem towards mvc on
>> the .Net land. We can reuse existing view engines, routing engines, binders,
>> etc if we want to.
>> 
>> On Jul 15, 2010 9:50 PM, "hammett" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Exactly.
>> 
>> So going back to the original theme. I'd invite you to step back and
>> see the whole picture. I see asp.net mvc as a quite successful
>> *blessed* solution from MS. I also see Fubu MVC and possible others
>> offering different perspectives on this space.
>> 
>> I dont do web development anymore - unfortunately - but I dont think I
>> would be totally happy with MS' offering or MonoRail.
>> 
>> asp.net MVC:
>> - has a great end-to-end experience (Fx + VS Integration + templates)
>> - Framework is quite minimal, which is a good thing
>> - Not very extensible IMO
>> 
>> MonoRail
>> - Very extensible
>> - Has everything + the kitchen sink (bad)
>> - Bad end-to-end experience
>> 
>> Instead of trying to play the catch up game I'd go for a totally
>> different route.
>> First. define the mission and vision. Since the beginning MonoRail was
>> about productivity. Does this still make sense? What has change in
>> this space? Are projects simpler or more complex? What about the
>> cloud?
>> Second, features should make sense for the vision, and this should be
>> your bar. Simply dont invest time/energy in whatever deviates from the
>> mission.
>> Third, end to end: what makes the tool successful is not only the Fx,
>> but samples, templates and VS integration. I have quite some
>> experience with VS, and could certainly help here.
>> 
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> 
>> 2010/7/14 Henry Conceição <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> You're right about both affirmations. Imho, on the next version, the
>>> core should contain only th...
>> 
>> hammett
>> http://hammett.castleproject.org/
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