Hi, all -
To be honest, I liked it the way it was before all of the changes ;-). It seems
like we changed a lot in the last couple of days and some of those decisions
appear to me as if they only had to be done because previous changes introduced
new challenges and problems :-/.
I absolutely agree with Robert's statement, the (old) bootstap.js did/does a
good job for loading modules and initializing the kernel. I therefor strongly
opt for keeping the bootstap.js the only file that has to be included in the
head of a world/xhtml-file and maybe following Keith idea of extracting the
files to be load (to the head of the file or somewhere else).
Furthermore I had a problem with moving the "kernel" to
kernel/core/CodeBase/... from the beginning because I could see that what the
"codebase"/root was before (e.g. .../webwerkstatt/) does not include all the
additional folders referencing modules, etc. (e.g. users, projects, ...).
I do not think that it is hard to extract the core files (for a release, a
clean installation, a new project, ...) and we have done that preparing release
zips, dumps, etc. So why not keep all those files in the (tree) structure we
have had so far?
In addition to that I do not (yet) see what all the openness to several VCS
will bring for the project, in other words: Why does LK suddenly have to not
only "run" with SVN but with GIT, Bazar, and so on? Still the decision to use
SVN was not only about the version control system to use but a deep technical
decision that influenced a lot of the LK architecture. And to be honest, do you
know one (or more) projects that do have/maintain/use more than one VCS?
So, these are my thoughts and I know, we are all working towards a good and
practical way to do releases and how we can sync different
branches/projects/installations that are based on Lively's "kernel". But maybe
we should step back for a moment and look at what we have and what might be a
reasonable, small step (or two, or three, ...) to reach this goal!
As always, questions, opinions and feedback are more than welcome...
- Marko
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