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> I agree with regards to contributing to the documentation, but until I fully
>  understand something I don't want to really get involved contributing until
>  I know it will be of benefit to people.

this point is raised a lot of the cake google group, and the response
is it's actually very beneficial to have people point out the
shortcomings when they're new because they see the issues that the
people who usually contribute would likely overlook.

> It's a big job the guy has if it's looked after by one person, and he's doing a great job.

yip!

> Unfortunately, that isn't really enough to pick it as a framework.

very true!

>  What I meant about the API changes is that they have been overly aggressive
>  in how they have deprecated previous functions. A lot of them could have
>  remained as per the previous version and been phased out over a number of
>  releases.

I think they've made a concious decision to push 1.2 as a different
product rather than a revision, I've not looked at anything API or
blog post based about 1.1 for ages so any naming changes pass me by.

>  If I had more time to 'kill' I could almost certainly move past a lot of my
>  issues with it and do think it's a good framework or I wouldn't have rolled
>  up my sleeves and got stuck in. It's just not my slice of cake ;)

fair enough :)

jb

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