I was hoping to get a little more feedback from the others here before
deciding whether this needed to be put to a vote...
The main issue to me is whether requiring JDK 5 to BUILD Tapestry is
going to be workable? If there's going to be problems there, we might
be able to look at some sort of conditional compilation for the annotations.
Richard
Ron Piterman wrote:
So why not vote on adding it as an (unmature) extention to the tapestry
project?
ציטוט Richard Lewis-Shell:
Hi,
I think we should add annotation support to Tapestry 4. The initial
hard work has already been done by Joni
(http://paloalto.laughingpanda.com/mediawiki/index.php/Tapestry_Annotations),
so this would mostly be a matter of merging his work (which has been
deliberately compatibly licensed BTW). The benefit seems clear - and
we can claim support for one of Java 5's most interesting features
(and by extension, thus Java 5 itself). The downside would be that we
would have to use Java 5 to build Tapestry. Is that going to be a
problem?
Because this is a completely new feature, I do not see a good reason
to wait. Does anyone else?
There is another reason I am interested in seeing this incorporated
into Tapestry sooner rather than later - one of encouraging our user
community. It seems to me that we are a strange open-source project -
we have a very good/strong user community, but not such a strong
developer community. We are currently very Howard-centric - there is
a lot of looking to Howard to guide us/tell-us-how-it-will-be (eg.
recently it was suggested that template defaults were "in Howard's
hands", and this attitude permeates on the -user list). While Howard
has done an incredible job of getting us this far, there is only so
much one person can do, even if that person is Howard!!! I think we
run the very real risk of losing relevance to other popular projects
in the same space (JSF, struts etc) with more active developer
communities. We are the only ones who can change that, and we do it
(IMO) by encouraging users to contribute more to the project, and the
obvious way to encourage user contribution is to incorporate those
contributions that fit well with Tapestry into the framework itself.
To bring this back to the here and now, annotation support is such a
user-contribution that I think fits well with Tapestry.
Richard
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