I can't speak to how complicated it is to build an HTTP Server, but..
Doesn't modularity become more important to maintainability as the
project becomes more complex?
On 1/4/2012 4:13 PM, Kit McCormick wrote:
Flex is a UI framework and a bazillion times more complicated than any
httpd. Flex is the BEST UI framework I have ever used and contains
some brilliant innovations. It is not a patched-up knock-off of
somebody else's work. Sun's java people have been struggling for
YEARS to close the gap between swing and Flex. I can only assume that
some really, really smart people worked on Flex.
-1 for modularity
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Rogelio Castillo Aqueveque
<roge...@rogeliocastillo.com> wrote:
Hi guys, I have been reading the thread and I think Bertrand has a very good point here,
for me this is the biggest "thumbs up" so far.
+1 for modularity
Cheers
R
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On 4/01/2012, at 5:54 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Michael Schmalle<m...@teotigraphix.com> wrote:
...I also think that the list should really have a decent discussion about the
future uses of interfaces and the lack of them in the framework to allow for
customizations through composition instead of subclassing or copy and paste
craziness....
I have extremely limited knowledge of Flex or its internals (which
might actually be a good thing in my role as an incubation mentor
here) but from this and other comments in this thread I sense that
improving modularization and "composability" of Flex might help
avoiding difficult discussions about which component is better than
another one.
The Apache HTTP server project is an excellent example of extremely
modular software, and I think a big part of that is because people
couldn't agree of what needs to be in a web server. By reducing the
server to a minimal core, and having plugins for most everything, the
part on which everybody must agree is much smaller.
In summary, I think modularity is a very powerful tool to avoid
conflicts in large open source projects ;-)
-Bertrand
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