With the move from SproutCore 2.0 to EmberJS there was the namespace and Github repo migration. Core things seem to have moved to the http://github.com/emberjs organization Github account while there are some others that seem to have been moved to the “addons” account http://github.com/emberjs-addons.
I am currently investigating EmberJS for use with a RESTful server, serving up JSON.
My question is: Do I use the new http://github.com/emberjs/data code or the older http://github.com/emberjs-addons/sproutcore-datastore code? I would assume the former but I would just like to be sure as well as get some clarification on what is going on with the old SproutCore “addons”.
The emberjs-addons are ports from the old sproutcore ecosystem. They are not modified and it looks like they are not receiving much attention from the emberjs core-team. They are concentrating on the new “emberjs-data”. However, the old datastore is production proven and the modified version does work fine with the current emberjs relase (0.9.3).
In contrast, while the rewritten version looks really nice, it is explicitly stated in the projects readme that it is not considered “production ready”, yet.
Which one should you choose? In my opinion that depends on your project. If you are looking for something stable or you want to put your app in production any time soon, I would give the “old” sproutcore datastore a go. On the other hand, if you are just starting with your project use the new and shiny “emberjs-data” but be warned that you might have to fight around some edges.