On 07-12-2010 18:34, Michael Koziarski wrote:
I wanted to get the conversation started...what do people think?
Bundler's certainly done a great job of making it low-cost to add,
install and upgrade gems that your app depends on. However without a
pretty compelling *cost* to maintaining the existence of plugins, I
don't really see what the upside is.
For the odd small snippet of code you want to share amongst a few
applications, plugins are a lovely lo-fi solution. Removing that
would come with a pretty high hurdle, one much higher than "the code
would be nicer" when, in reality, it's very little code to support
them, 91 lines or so at present
On the good side of keeping plugins, unless I'm missing something, it
seems easier for the developer to test (I'm not talking about automated
tests) the plugin in the development phase, before packaging it in a
gem. But maybe I'm just missing about how development could be easily
tested when used as a gem...
Rodrigo
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