From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-11-12T03:41:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Needle 1.1.0

Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> * Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> [Nov 11, 2004 18:50]:
> 
>>Needle is a dependency injection container for Ruby, employing many of
>>Ruby's best idioms.
>>
>>  Project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/needle
>>  User Manual:  http://needle.rubyforge.org
>>  Needle Wiki:  http://needle.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
>>  FAQ:          http://needle.rubyforge.org/faq.html
>>  API Docs:     http://needle.rubyforge.org/api
>>
>>Version 1.1.0 adds some new features:
>>
>>* Needle::Registry can now be given both a name and a parent (as
>>requested by Leon Breedt). This means that Needle no longer enforces the
>>constraint that registries should exist only at the root of container
>>hierarchies.
>>
>>* The implementing classes for namespaces, interceptor definitions, and
>>definition contexts are now given as services within Needle. This means
>>that clients can provide their own custom implementations for those
>>services, thereby changing Needle's behavior.
>>
>>* Chapter 9, "Customizing Needle" has been added to the users manual to
>>describe how you can add your own implementations of namespaces, et. al.
> 
> 
> Awesome!
> 
> Btw, "et al." is written "et al." as it an abbreviation of "et alii",
> which means "and others" in latin, where others is referring to people,
> not things.  Just thought I might enlighten you.
> 	nikolai

Thanks, Nikolai. :) I've been doing this stuff so much that I've 
anthropomorphized namespaces, I guess. We're good friends, namespaces 
and I. :)

- Jamis

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