Lift Bloat: LOL!!!

2009/5/10 David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>

> A long time ago, I insisted that Lift was everything that we had in all the
> Lift packages.  When DavidB split Lift into different packages, he called
> the "whole thing that includes all Lift packages" Lift Core.  It would
> probably be better named "Lift Bloat" (this is a joke), but it is what it
> is.
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> What exactly is Lift-Core. When I read Chapter 7 of the Lift book, it
>> says that Lift-Core is
>>
>> "The engine of the framework responsible for the request/response
>> lifecycle, the rendering pipeline, invoking the user's functions, etc.
>> We don't directly cover the core in this book because essentially all of
>> the functionality that we do cover sits on top of the core."
>>
>> But when I look in the source code under lift-core, there's nothing
>> there except a pom.xml file that appears to pull a bunch of
>> dependencies, namely, lift-util, lift-webkit, lift-mapper, lift-machine,
>> lift-record, lift-textile, lift-facebook, lift-amqp, lift-xmpp, and
>> lift-widgets.
>>
>> So does "lift-core" comprise these widgets? Or is the lift-core
>> something else? (The diagram in the book shows the Mapper, for example,
>> as being separate from the Core.)
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Chas.
>>
>>
>>
>
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