On Jan 2, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Mark Lundquist wrote:
IMHO, going forward the things like CForms, Ajax, Batik etc. should no longer be called "blocks" at all... rather they should be called "optional modules", because that's all they are.
OTOH, I should think that it would be perfectly OK if some "optional modules" happened to include real Block(s). My proposed nomenclature change isn't meant to imply some mutually exclusive thing, nor should the structure of our sources or artifacts.
For instance, maybe Portal, Lucene, and/or Captcha are things that would work well as Blocks. I don't really know enough yet to say for sure. Other things like CForms don't really provide "services", they are more like infrastructure things.
cheers, —ml—
