> IMO the great components in the extension's repeater package
> should be promoted to the core. It is very easy to miss those
> great extensions, just because they are not in core. I feel
> disappointed to discover them after 6 months of Wicket hacking...
I agree and in fact proposed replacing listview with the repeaters two
times before, as - regardless of the problems people have with list
views - most think the repeaters work better anyway.
So, who else wants to start a vote this time :)
Let me refine this a bit. What I like about the repeaters, and why I
think they make a better default, is that they make all the choices
more explicit, so that there won't be any of the nasty surprises as
with ListView. What I like less about repeaters and that they are more
verbose to use in general and I think they are harder to get started
with for beginners (but that's a mere hunch). So, what I would propose
(again) is to move at least a bunch of repeaters to the core project
and give them more visibility by replacing a couple of the list view
based examples we have now with repeaters. We can move the list view
to extensions or just keep them where they are... both fine by me. The
main idea behind moving repeaters to core is exactly as Jean-Baptiste
pointed out: they should be more visible.
Eelco
