your right...its a tough call ;).  There is no clear right or wrong on
this.  I do see value of putting a stake in the ground.  Its just all
happening so fast and I can't even run the latest stuff at the moment
due to install script issues.  Some days it works, others it doesn't.

I'm a bit of purist.  Near as I can see, the "API" isn't clear.
Without loading up a merb environment and running it in interactive
mode (which has been broken for me the last few weeks), you cannot
easily get a list of all methods you are inheriting.  This is the
danger here:  there are lots of public methods lingering about that
may or may not be intended to be part of some official API.

thanks for hearing my 2 cents ;)

Jon



On Oct 16, 8:31 am, "Andy Delcambre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Jon Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've very recently come to the opinion that it would be useful if merb
> > "1.0", meaning a stable API, doesn't happen for a while longer.
> > There have been lots of changes the last months.  Things are just,
> > hopefully, getting stable.  After this, it can take many months for
> > other developers to try various use cases (figuring out the most
> > straightforward and efficient use of different components).  This will
> > lead to feedback on the API.
>
> I can see where you are coming from.  Things will almost definitely need to
> change.  But I personally see huge benefit from putting a stake in the
> ground. I think that the API is pretty solid and should serve most
> developers well.  Things that need to get added can be added in point
> releases on the way to 2.0, all the core team is saying is that you can use
> the current API until 2.0 and it won't break your code along the way.
>
> We need to have a version of merb which developers can count on to not break
> things.  We can't keep going with the past month or so, where every little
> point release breaks a bunch of things.
>
> Just my .02
>
> Andy Delcambre
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