From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-11-09T02:08:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Needle 1.0.0

* Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> [Nov 08, 2004 17:50]:
> >What is the relationship (if any) between Copland and Needle?  Is Needle
> >the successor to Copland?

> Copland, though functional, is pretty overengineered from a Ruby
> standpoint. I used a lot of Java-isms to implement it, and although Java
> requires that kind of complexity to accomplish dependency injection,
> Ruby does not.

Yeah.  When I saw Copland, I thought that it seemed a bit much to do
something as "simple" as that, but when Needle was announced I really
thought that it could be useful.  The simplicity of using Needle really
appeals to me.
	nikolai

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