People who don't contribute to Velocity, really don't have a right to complain about anything...
What about people who are using Velocity? I have asked about map support in VTL. I can live without it, but it would be certainly nice to have a map support as there is already a collection support in VTL. I can enhance Velocity with Java beans as much as I like, so I don't really complain.
Can you not add this support yourself and submit as a patch? I don't see the problem. If you need it and it ain't there... add it!
Come 'on, we are talking about templating language here. Or did you ask me this question as a Java developer? Then sure I can submit the patch, but I still think that it would be easier to write by people who already knows Velocity and it's source code. What, I did was asking someone to implement it. No one was willing to do it. Then I had three choices:
a. Implement it myself b. Live without the feature c. Change templating engine
If you can't do it yourself, ask/pay someone to do it for you!
That's what I did! The feature was not that important to me after I build an utility class that generates those maps, so I decided to go with choice b. That doesn't mean that I'm not willing to see that feature in VTL anymore.
But, I stand by my statement that those who don't contribute to Velocity, really don't have a right to complain...
I can see the philosophical meaning behind that statement and I agree. But I have to ask you: "Is writing the code the only way to contribute?"
I'm not defending Jon here.
Oh, God forbid... ;-)
Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ FreeMarker-Velocity comparison page, http://freemarker.org/fmVsVel.html
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