> > 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!
A bit too, yes, but not a whole lot ;-) I mean storing an object in the session, instead of it's id, and the form_input function... > 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. * I doubt the first point outside the Rails core group... * The second point is somewhat true, although I still see code- sharing as the main benefit of engines, and this is give and take. * The third is valid, still I think there should be FOSS login- engines available. See my next post. > 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 :) The conceptual difference could still be usefull, engines being full stack, model to view, and plugins focussing more on a single level... (that could mean having an engine consisting of 3 or more plugins)... Wybo > -- > * J * > ~ -- ::Student: - History, Informatiekunde (computer linguistics, IR, webtech) and Philosophy - Member of the Center for Metahistory Groningen (http://www.rug.nl/let/cmg) ::Free Software and Open Source Developer: - http://www.LogiLogi.org, innovative system for cumulative, shared commenting, publication and idea sharing: Web as it should be... - ComLinToo, a computational linguistics toolset written in Perl - Lake (LogiLogi.org Make), a make-replacement using makefiles in pure C++ ::Being: - In the world, go figure (http://nl.logilogi.org/HomE/WyboWiersma) _______________________________________________ engine-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org
