Re: [Avalon4:PROPOSAL] Context Consensus

Nicola Ken Barozzi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.apps.devel,gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.devel
Organization Apache Software Foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Berin Loritsch wrote:
> From: Leo Sutic [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> 
>>From: Leo Simons [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>
>>ah. ok. So a component author declares "I need a T context" 
>>and the container says "don't have one, so I'm not running 
> 
> you". Cool.
> 
> Exactly. All it does is provide a method for component authors to
> declare their requirements (so that a container *may* satisfy them
> if it can and wants to) in a uniform way.
> 
> 
> Which in effect discourages this type of use if the component
> author values component reuse.  Just from a practicality standpoint.

And leads us to mark this usage pattern as "deprecated" and suggest a 
portable design... which we still have to agree on though.

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Nicola Ken Barozzi                   [email protected]
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