[Geoprisma-dev] ExtJS bug fixes now costs money

[Yves Moisan]

> jQuery itself is a very small library, but there is also jQuery UI [1], 
> which contains a lot of widget plugins. But still, ExtJS contains way 
> more functionality.

Hi Christoph,

I learned meanwhile that bug fix releases of ExtJS were only for
subscribers and that "other" (non privileged I guess we could call them)
users only get a release every 6 months or so.
> 
> However you can find jQuery plugins for almost all scenarios imaginable, 
> but it would be nice to have them bundled (and quality tested), like in 
> ExtJS.
> 
> Mapbender is based on jQuery (since version 2.5), and from version 2.7 
> onwards, we will use the jQuery UI library as well.
> 
> Licensing was a main issue why we chose jQuery over ExtJS, besides the 
> fact that jQuery only costs a few kB.

MapBender is GPL right ?  I think this was Josh's main concern about
ExtJS (the licensing options), but I may be wrong.

Vielen danke,

Yves

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christoph
> 
> [1] http://jqueryui.com/
> 
> >
> > Daniel
> 
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