Mike Perham

As someone who was pretty closely involved in an OSS project that exploded into hundreds of little subprojects, I have to say I’m discouraged to see DataMapper and Merb starting to go down that same road.

drwxr-xr-x  3 102 May 10 15:16 adapters
drwxr-xr-x  8 272 May 10 15:16 dm-aggregates
drwxr-xr-x  8 272 May 10 15:16 dm-ar-finders
drwxr-xr-x  9 306 May 10 15:16 dm-cli
drwxr-xr-x  7 238 May 10 15:16 dm-is-tree
drwxr-xr-x  9 306 May 10 15:16 dm-migrations
drwxr-xr-x  8 272 May 10 15:16 dm-serializer
drwxr-xr-x  8 272 May 10 15:16 dm-timestamps
drwxr-xr-x  8 272 May 10 15:16 dm-types
drwxr-xr-x  8 272 May 10 15:16 dm-validations
drwxr-xr-x  9 306 May 10 15:16 merb_datamapper

This looks like the Apache Maven project and, believe me, that way leads to madness. There’s a lot of be said for a single, integrated project.