Hi Deco, On 11/30/06, Deco Rior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, of all, good luck.This is a big endeavour, and if you feel > you can be successful we should applaud you for your enthusiasm.
Thank you. > A > little arrogance comes we the territory I think (but you did make me > cringe a little). I don't intend to be arrogant at all. I want to share the best possible library I can make that I use and will use. I wouldn't have started if I was satisfied with the existing libraries so to say I am going to try to do better will, unfortunately, come across as arrogant to some. > On Nov 30, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: > >> After over 12 months of investment, the barrier to migrate with a > >> major code change to another library would be daunting. > > > > Fork probably isn't ready yet for this situation but eventually I > > think the work would be worth it. > > Um...how big an app do you think we have? I don't know. I thought you were implying a very big code base. > Any major code change is > very costly, mostly in QA. We essentially are about 80% through our > rewrite based on AJAX. A major code change is where we cannot simply > script the code, and requires us to potentially touch each file. For the Ajax changes I think you could script the changes from Prototype to Fork. The API is not wildly that different. I have not read the Prototype Ajax code in detail or in quite a long time. I never had a problem with that part of Prototype and wouldn't have started Fork for the sake of a different Ajax library. > >> In any case > >> it would need to be something with some muscle behind it (by that I > >> mean, contributers, funding, third-party certification). > > > > Perhaps one day. Not many open source software projects start with > > this much muscle. > > And you cannot build a mission critical solution on a startup open- > source. Try and get SAS 70 certification on libraries with version 0.2a! I would have to learn more about that. I haven't heard of SAS 70 before and just took a look at their site. Right now the focus is on quality code. Thanks for the suggestion. > One dumb question...what is there to stop someone getting a branch of > prototype source and going off and making a better version? If Sam > doesn't have time, that is okay...Do we need a Linus? With an MIT license nothing is stopping anyone as far as I know. Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
