On 11/14/06, James Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I'd much prefer it if I personally
> could focus on the development of the engines plugin, and leave the
> actual engine implementations to others in the community. What do you
> think?

I think that is a great idea!

> Also, with the upcoming release of Rails 1.2, the distinction between
> engines and plugins will hopefully basically disappear. Now that I
> have an 'official' mechanism to control the order that plugins are
> loaded, there's no need for Engines.start, and all the features that
> the engines plugin provides can be made available to any plugin that
> needs them. This might result an erosion of meaning for the word
> 'engine' as applied to any particular chunk of shareable code - we'd
> just have plugins that make use of engine-plugin features. The
> 'pluginaweek' guys have the right idea - to an extent at least. I
> still feel that every 'feature' that the engines plugin provides makes
> sense as a coherent, single package, and they got a few things quite
> wrong in their recent criticism - see my reply on rails-engines.org if
> you're interested.

What exactly is happening in Rails 1.2. Are Rails' plugins essentially
evolving into full functioning engines?

Thanks,
Peter
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