The creator of ActionWebService, Leon Breedt, seems to be on a
long-term vacation from Rails work and no one else in the core group
is working with this framework. So its not a good fit to be in core
when none of core is deeply familiar with it. On top of that, it's not
one of those things that "most people need most of the time", so
that's another strike.
With those charges, we want to unbundle AWS from the core distribution
of Rails. That sounds dramatic, but it's really just a 1 line change
in the Rakefile of railties:
- s.add_dependency('actionwebservice', '= 1.0.0' + PKG_BUILD)
...and if you actually used AWS, it would be easy as pie to keep
installing it with:
gem install actionwebservice
So this is a very likely thing to happen for 1.1. If you have any
concerns as to why it shouldn't go down like that, please voice your
opinion. If you want to take the lead on maintaining AWS, please speak
up too (that won't stop our intentions to unbundle, though).
--
David Heinemeier Hansson
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