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From: "V.Krishn" <vkrishn4@gmail.com>
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To: Kaarle Ritvanen <kaarle.ritvanen@datakunkku.fi>
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Ideas for a new config framework, ACF2
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 19:39:19 +0530
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On Wednesday, December 05, 2012 01:27:09 PM you wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, V.Krishn wrote:
> > Can we know what frameworks/components are involved.
> > Few that I could get from the thread:
> > 1. bootstrap
> > 2. backbonejs, requirejs
> > 3. lua
> > 4. minihttpd
> > 5. json libs
> > 6. sqlite
> > 7. augeas
> > 
> > Any thoughts on tir (lua+mongrel2+zeromq) ?
> 
> I used Tir as part of the first prototype before writing the
> proposal. This was in May, but afterward we decided to opt for full
> client-side implementation for the web UI, whereas Tir seems to target
> server-side web applications. Even for those, the value add was rather
> thin, which is quite natural because the author advertises to use only
> 1300 lines of code.

Having a backed lua framework would be nice.
Tir could be adopted/modified as a base.

> 
> The proposal mentions Backbone.js, but after a second prototyping
> round I feel that this library creates more problems than provides
> solutions, at least in this context. Backbone's data model is rather
> limited in comparison to what is proposed for the new ACF. For
> example, Backbone does not support nested collections or collections
> of primitive types. Circumventing these limitations provided to add
> too much complexity both to the server and client implementation.
> 

Choice of client-side js libs should not be a stress here.
Rather module-specific adoption of other libs should be possible.

Mongrel2 also involves zeromq, which has its own benefits.

Also to be evaluated for tools/system to be used in ACF2 is "redis".

-- 
Regards.
V.Krishn


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