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Full link: groups.google.com/group/merb/browse_thread/thread/b4eeeb33e2d92489
Fixed.
That said, I have no problem with people using bit.ly links as long as a) they’re actually linked with HTML, and b) don’t have the URL as the link text ;-) (In comments anything goes.)
While I’m here, this Merb stuff has confused the fuck out of me for the last year.. and I’m involved with Ruby stuff every day. At the time of the “merge” Yehuda said:
Effectively, Merb 2 is Rails 3.And I (along with others) assumed Merb was basically becoming Rails 3 and pretty much wrote Merb off. I was even doing a chapter on it in Beginning Ruby but cancelled it and did Ramaze and Sinatra instead for this reason. Yet now it seems Merb is actually alive in some zombie-like fashion.
I dare say the merge and the mixed signals have done little to assist Zombie-Merb’s popularity..
Wycats can say whatever he likes but the project is open source. Just looked for the most active developer/fork on github and you’ve found the new project lead/maintainer :)
Rails3 will probably be a better Rails but it won’t be the framework oligarchy the Rails3 ‘core team’ dreamt of because in the meantime everyone else went tribal and wrote Rack middlewares delivering long promised modularity.
Yeah agree with the ducky - the beauty of open source is that you can always gut a project and reuse it to build something more beautiful and modular. Code continually evolves, anyone who thinks that they can spend a couple of years building a big arse framework that everyone will use is kidding themselves.
Sorry for the bit.ly link Peter.
You’re right that what Yehuda said did confuse a lot of people and did sound like there is no space for Merb any more.
However there is quite a few applications written in Merb which needs support. And it really is not that easy port your Merb app to Rails3. And by the way most of the folks don’t want to port it.
We’re moving Merb forward now for these reasons and we will continue do so. There are new features and refactoring planned for the next versions (1.1.x) and 2.0 specifically. The codebase is really stable, lightweight and has hight quality standard which only drives us to build on top of that.
Versioning is a bit confusing but it really IMHO was confusing to call Merb 2.0 == Rails 3 in the first place.
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