This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Agile Buzz
by James Robertson.
Original Post: Another Reason to Dislike Bundles
Feed Title: Travis Griggs - Blog
Feed URL: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/travis-rss.xml
Feed Description: This TAG Line is Extra
Many have heard me complain about the pattern where the bundle is the deliverable and the packages are just "categories". I was trying to figure out which version of Seaside to download today. If you look for items in the OR with a filter of "seaside", you'll get many. It's because someone's doing the packages-are-categories thing. OK, I'm fine with that (or at least, it's an argument for another day). What I noticed is that all of those "categories" aren't bound to the containing item. IOW, they all have to have the substring "seaside" in them. If we all use packages as categories, we still have to contend with one another for namespace. I'd never noticed this. A real categorization system would allow the namespace of the categories of the deliverable (bundle) to be scoped to just that.
Previous Topic
