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I agree, but I think the point of Tom originally linking it was to show that Dustin had integrated a micro-framework (from you), and couldn't get a response from you (even to say the stuff you mention above) and eventually closed the ticket.

It's not my own commentary, though. I was just clarifying to Amy why the argument that seemed entirely unrelated was at least tangentially related. Personally, I would have just modified it and went on my way :D

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Actually Dustin's pull request is a bad example entirely. He wanted to change the whole API of emile. He liked the functionality but it didn't work for how he wanted to integrate it into ender. If an API doesn't work for you, you're kind of screwed, whatever library you're using. You either hack it yourself or you ask the maintainer. If some API of SproutCore wasn't to your liking, then what?

Dustin could've written an adapter around emile to expose the api he wanted to for ender. But that would defeat the purpose of ender which is to cleanly integrate several great micro frameworks. He didn't have to wait for Thomas. He wanted to explicitly. It was a goal of his to keep the dependencies pure.

Dependency hell is a problem with integrating several different frameworks. But I'm not sure this is the best illustration of that.

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