Re: Notice of scheduled work

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 21:32, Stephen Haberman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:58:09PM -0400, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> > Tomorrow night I am going to remove all references to Avalon code
> > in Plexus. I'm not following the project anymore, anyone who I
> > respected as a developer has in essence bailed and I don't think
> > there's much to learn there anymore. So Avalon is going bye bye.
> 
> Crazy. I must admit I really liked the idea of having Plexus run
> components that only had to implement Avalon interfaces, 

I'm taking it out of the core of Plexus. Avalon can still be an API if
that is desired. There's nothing special about the interfaces and they
are deficient.

> as then
> should Plexus not do as well (e.g. you get busy with something else,
> get hit by a truck, etc.) the code base could fall back on, say,
> Phoenix or what not.

No Avalon components run in all containers anyway.

> Not that I'm trying to influence your decision or anything, I'm sure
> you have good reasons, e.g. having a clean slate and not being tied
> to an existing, outside-managed API. I'll look forward to seeing
> what becomes of the de-avalonization.
> 
> - Stephen
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