Hi Daniel, I think copying incubator components into your sources would be a reasonable conservative approach. Or you could be lazy about it and only copy if an incubator component changes substantially between releases.
If you do copy, please be careful with attribution and copyrights if you re-distribute your sources. Thanks, jim On May 30, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Daniel Salama wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Thanks for the explanation. Given your explanation, if I find a > component in the incubator that I am interested in using, would it > then make more sense to _COPY_ that component (and its dependencies) > from the incubator directory into my own [sub]directory in order to > minimize impact on new versions of lps? Then once a component has > graduated, I could simple weight the differences and apply changes as > needed? Would that be the "correct" approach or should I just look at > the incubator as "best practices" to follow when doing/copying my own > components? > > Thanks, > Daniel > > On May 30, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Jim Grandy wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Incubator components are included "as-is" in the source >> distribution as a service to the community. The bar for inclusion >> is low, and there is very little QA attention paid to them. >> >> Inclusion in the incubator can be an effective way of putting a >> proposal on a track for addition to the platform itself -- >> newcombobox/datacombobox is a good example here. However (and here >> newcombobox is a bit of an exception), for inclusion in the >> platform proper a proposal still has to follow the RFC process (see >> http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Enhancement_Proposals) and be accepted >> by the community. >> >> Given this, I think it is very likely that a given incubator >> component will change as it is migrated to the platform. It is also >> possible that an incubator component will change substantially from >> release to release -- the focus in the incubator is less on >> continuity and compatibility and more on development of "best >> practices" and evolution of solutions. >> >> jim >> >> >> On May 30, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Daniel Salama wrote: >> >>> Can anyone explain to me or point me to where I can read more about >>> the incubator directory? >>> >>> I just learned about it and would like to know more about the >>> process >>> followed for these "components" to graduate to standard lps >>> distribution. Also, how likely are they to change during their >>> "graduation"? If I use them know, will it brake in a future version >>> of lps? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Daniel >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Laszlo-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user >> > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
