On Dec 24, 2008, at 6:28 am, Anthony Green wrote:

> A little harsh. Plenty of Merb ideas have been feeding back into  
> Rails prior
> to this. I consider myself to be just as opinionated as DHH, doesn't  
> mean I
> can't be swayed by a passionately put and well argued case.

Hmmm, such as since Merb slices, suddenly the Rails world loves Engines?

And there's a difference between opinionated and dogmatic...


> The way way merb core sees its so long as the values they hold are
> encompassed in it who cares what its called ? That's just 'old world'
> thinking.
>
> Rails has the larger feature set and the bigger user base.

I still find it odd that a project that has grown so successfully and  
quickly on it's own needs to do this.  (I don't think it does.)  But  
as long as the Merb principles survive, I won't complain.


>> what does the Merb core team have to gain from merging with
>> Rails?
>
> A larger feature set and a bigger user base.
> :-)

Given time, I don't think either of these would have been issues.

> Seriously reading the #merb discussions last night its obvious that  
> at the
> heart its merb. Agnostic, modular and no alias_method_chain.
> It can be as small as you like or as feature rich as you like.
> Think of it as a win for common sense. :-)

I truly hope this is the case, and that Merb will live on under the  
name Rails.

Ashley


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