[hunchentoot-devel] Widget Guidlines

[Hans Hübner]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:15, Tomasz Lipski <tomek.lipski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the Hunchentoot mailing list is a suitable starting point to
>> discuss such a framework up to the point where enough traffic has been
>> gathered to create a suitable standalone project.  common-lisp.net is
>> a free hosting service for Common Lisp projects, just let me know if
>> you want me to set up infrastructure.
>>
>
> Yeah, but what are the chances that it will end up with something
> superior to weblocks?
> Pretty low I guess..

Not all needs are the same, and it may be that there is an interest in
whatever Phil comes up with as a mission statement for his widget
library.  I don't know Weblocks, but I have glanced at its web site
enough to know that it is not a fit for my development model.  I'm
assuming that other people feel the same.

My point is:  Hunchentoot is and will stay being a HTTP server library
and not include any "widget like" functionality that interoperates
with a database, requires a certain development model, supplies or
assumes a model for flow of control between server and all that.
Hunchentoot does not even know about HTML, and rightfully so.

-Hans