On Jul 5, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Ron Piterman wrote:
ציטוט Pablo Ruggia:
This is not a Tapestry problem. It's the community (me included)
the one that should contribute with those components. I've created
several components and never upload them anywhere. I think you
guys are in the same.
I think what we need is a more "official" site where to upload
components, and not personal attemps like tassel or tdelli.
Perhaps a Tapestry subproject or something like that.
Since sourceforge is there, this should not be the problem. I think
the problem is *doing* it. Its fine when Howard organizes, but this
one - I think we have to do "on our self"...
I have to agree with Pablo. What we need is a site that contains
Components that people express a need for, along with, over time, a
reasonably worked out API. (For example, a Menu component takes a
List of MenuBar components, each of which contains a link. The HTML
class for the menu as a whole is "menu", each menuBar is "menuBar"
and each item is "menuBarItem". Included are CSS examples which show
the menu vertically, horizontally, under JavaScript control, and as
plain old HTML links.) In the beginning, of course, we would just
have names and short descriptions.
When I need a component for a Tapestry project I can go to this site.
If it isn't already specified, I fire off an email saying "I need
this component. Should I add it to the list or is it too special
purpose?" If there is a specification but no implementation, I can
start implementing using the API that people have come up with as a
guide. When I finish, I upload the .jwc, the Java class(es), and
provide links to any required libraries.
If someone wants to improve on a component, they can, and if people
think additional functionality would be a good idea, they can lobby
for that. If people agree, they add it back to the repository. If
not, they just subclass/modify the component that's there.
TapestryPalette seems to be able to access component libraries and
install needed components into Eclipse projects, so just making sure
that the component project is compatible with that functionality
would make life easy for lots of people.
Todd
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