[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Now I'm a bit lost on the results of the RT deprecated thread 8-) so I'm
making this into a proposal.
_Proposal_
This proposal is to create a source section parallel to blocks, to hold
Cocoon "parts", or "modules", that are not part of the Cocoon minimal
core but need nevertheless to be included in the classpath and config
files at startup.
They would look identical to the current "blocks", ie jars. The
difference is that they will never be hot-pluggable as Cocoon
Components, and are not part of the Block concept.
Thus, when proper .cob blocks will arrive, the /blocks will migrate to
that packaging format, while these "modules" will not.
Possible candidates to be repackaged as modules:
1 - deprecated classes that are not Cocoon Components
2 - Environment implememtations
3 - "frontends" like CocoonServlet.java and Main.java
4 - samples
5 - module implementations
6 - profiler
Hm... this could really make it hard to have an overview of the codebase.
Actually, the motive is exactly that of having a cleaner codebase...
Consider you are looking for a specific class... It might be in module A
java/org/apache/cocoon/... or in module B java/org/...
For some classes it *might* not be obvious in which module to find them...
It should be. Look at the other side: how many know what is core in
Cocoon and what isn't? JSP block showed that it's *totally* non-core,
but it was not configured as such, it was in the base xconf.
BTW: I bet people will getting cross-eyed having to deal with modules as well
as with blocks. ("What's the difference?" gonna be a candidate for the FAQ)
Probably till we have cobs it could be so.
...so I am currently -0.25 :-/
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Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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