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February 15, 2005
State of the butterfly
Stefano posts a thought-provoking email to the Cocoon developer list and I agree with much of his wake-up call. I'm not so involved in the actual development nowadays, so I'll refrain from commenting on what needs to be done technically. However I also see another "threat" on the horizon. Apart from scripting languages gaining traction, notice also how frameworks such as Ruby On Rails or Trails are becoming increasingly popular for everyday types of applications. Granted, Cocoon provides a lot more in the way of functionality and flexibility, but do we need it all? Or rather - do our users need it all? A "Cocoon on tracks" approach whereby I can download a small Cocoon distribution, configure my database, call an Ant script and I have a typical CRUD application - but using Cocoon core + CForms - would be cool as a starting point. Wouldn't it?
Posted by Matthew at February 15, 2005 06:33 PM