On 1/24/07, Wybo Wiersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is quite sad, as sharing engine-code the Open Source > way is in my view still a superior use. Eventhough I do agree that the > login_engine was crap in terms of the coding & session-handling. Still > it could have been fixed... And nevertheless I do bilieve that sooner > or later as the Rails community grows shared engines will re-emerge.
I think "crap" is a bit strong! The reason they're not being publicly migrated up to 1.2 compatibility is threefold: 1. they smell bad and people have developed - for whatever reason - negative feelings towards them; 2. they distract from the point of the engines plugin, which is to make it easy for YOU to develop powerful plugins; and 3. so that *other people* can fill the void with their own open-source plugins, using the engines plugin enhancements if they feel it's useful. We'll be writing our own replacement internally, which may or may not be released. Also, in case you hadn't picked up on it, no such thing as an "engine" anymore. The login_engine would have to become the "login plugin", if anyone tweaks it to work with engines 1.2 :) -- * J * ~ _______________________________________________ engine-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org
