Infusion Builder next steps for the 1.2 release

[Colin Clark]

Hi Anastasia,

On 1-Sep-09, at 4:07 PM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:

> On 21-Aug-09, at 3:51 PM, Colin Clark wrote:
>
>> Justin, Laurel, and I chatted briefly today about the Infusion  
>> Builder and what needs to get done at a high level before it will  
>> be ready for the Infusion 1.2 release.
>> ...
>> I think this will be an awesome addition to Infusion.
>
>
> I understand that the code is currently in the incubator section of  
> SVN. Are there plans to eventually promote the Builder to a full- 
> fledged Infusion component? If so, is that expected in the 1.2  
> timeline?
>
> If not, are there any plans for otherwise exposing the code itself  
> to the general public, e.g. inviting people to look at it, etc? I'm  
> wondering if there are any documentation needs for this tool for  
> 1.2...

Good questions. I don't know that people will find the Builder  
component especially useful except as a feature on our Website for  
generating custom Infusion packages. It's been built to high standard  
of quality, and uses a lot of the features of the Infusion framework,  
but it's probably only useful for this particular purpose. While we  
will likely move the Builder out of the incubator when it's released  
and fully production-ready, I don't imagine that it will ever ship as  
a part of Infusion.

As a result, I think the documentation required will mostly be inward- 
facing, developer-oriented documentation along with any end-user  
documentation if necessary.

I'm always willing to consider otherwise, but for now I'm assuming  
it's probably just for use on our website.

Colin

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
http://fluidproject.org