Re: [SUMMARY] Context Concensus

Stephen McConnell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.apps.devel,gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:

>
>
> Paul Hammant wrote:
>
>> Darrell.
>>
>> Non-committers opinions noted.
>>
>>> Now, nothing stops Phoenix from having a BlockContext implementation 
>>> that just does:     return this;
>>
>>
>> Except that change the usage pattern.
>>
>>> when asked for that key. And nothing *prevents* a component from 
>>> directly casting, except that the component is then <i>tightly tied 
>>> to Phoenix</i> because this is <i>not defined in the Framework</i> 
>>> contracts.
>>
>>
>> Sorry to be pedantic.  No that component is tied to BlockContext 
>> which is part of Phoenix, but ships in a client api jar. There has 
>> been discussion before about how trivial to implement for a container 
>> this is.  We even voted it should be the case for Merlin. Nobody made 
>> the change though.  Too much respoect for Stephen, his resistance to 
>> that resultion, and not enogh sub-project karma.
>
>
> Please show me the thread of that vote and the resolution, I would 
> like to remember how it went.


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Cheers, Steve.

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