RE: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision (was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Steven Noels
Jon wrote: I can agree with that. Hell, the dvsl vs. xsl is a showstopper for me. I can't stand XSL... I'm also a little worried about the size/vocality of the centipede developer community. Krysalis lists (in the archive) total 53 posts. Maven dev (includes cvs) has 780, and the user

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/1/02 11:58 PM, Steven Noels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which basically boils down to let's just invent our own little language and try to get enough people bragging about it It isn't a little language... It is Velocity templates using a well known/used API (DOM4J). Come on, this isn't

RE: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Steven Noels
Jon wrote: Wasn't this entire thing about community building? So what do we really want: using technology we invented on our own, alienating possible new users, or sticking to common standards? Using technology that is well supported, developed by a community of people who are not

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You makethedecision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/2/02 12:22 AM, Steven Noels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point is that projects are being attacked here *solely* because they prefer XSLT instead of DVSL. Where the heck did you see someone being 'attacked'? Geez. People. You need to quit reading into someone saying THEY don't like XSLT

Re: jakarta subproject scope (was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!)

2002-05-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 30 Apr 2002, John McNally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I would not be bothered if tomcat had developed a build system that it packaged as an independent entity with the idea that it might be more generally useful. It once had, it was called Ant. 8-) Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Leo Simons
Centaven Reasoning: I don't see how we can easily do this. The approaches are wildly different at basic levels, e.g. dvsl vs xsl, entities vs external build files for ant, extending GUMPs descriptor vs generating one etc. I can agree with that. Hell, the dvsl vs. xsl is a showstopper

RE: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Steven Noels
Leo wrote: However, the implicit argument home-brewn solutions are worse than standards simply doesn't always hold true. It doesn't here. Both XSLT and DVSL are here at Apache, which, for me, is enough of a standard. Basically, all this is to point out masquerading of egotism as technical

Re: [New Subproject Proposal] ObjectBridge

2002-05-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 29 Apr 2002, Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose ObjectRelationalBridge (http://objectbridge.sourceforge.net/) as a top level subproject of Jakarta. +1 Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Berin Loritsch
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: on 5/2/02 2:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Centaven Reasoning: I don't see how we can easily do this. The approaches are wildly different at basic levels, e.g. dvsl vs xsl, entities vs external build files for ant, extending GUMPs descriptor vs

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: on 5/1/02 11:58 PM, Steven Noels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which basically boils down to let's just invent our own little language and try to get enough people bragging about it It isn't a little language... It is Velocity templates using a well known/used API (DOM4J).

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make thedecision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Berin Loritsch
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: on 5/1/02 11:58 PM, Steven Noels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which basically boils down to let's just invent our own little language and try to get enough people bragging about it It isn't a little language... It is Velocity templates using a well known/used API

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Guys, Bottom line (you could probably guess these but it needs to be said): 1. I'll -1 the attempt to switch any project to maven that I have a vote on unless there is a concerted effort to collaborate on a combined effort with centipede. 2. I'll -1 anything that REQUIRES me to use DVSL if I

summary: [New Subproject Proposal] ObjectBridge

2002-05-02 Thread Martin Poeschl
Jason van Zyl wrote: Hi, I would like to propose ObjectRelationalBridge (http://objectbridge.sourceforge.net/) as a top level subproject of Jakarta. the voting so far: Stefan Bodewig +1 Craig McClanahan +1 Diane Holt not voted yet Conor MacNeill +1 Geir Magnusson Jr. +1

Re: In defense of DVSL and XSLT

2002-05-02 Thread Daniel Rall
James Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally have found uses for both. You may notice that for print documentation in maven we are using XSLT rather than DVSL. At that point all the generated documents and user documents are in the same intermediate format and no further access to

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision (was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Morgan Delagrange
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAIN TING The language you use for transformation is, in the case of a Maven/Centipete-type tool, largely internal to the project. Gather some developers, call a vote, and use what the majority decides. Later on, if you

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Morgan Delagrange wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAIN TING The language you use for transformation is, in the case of a Maven/Centipete-type tool, largely internal to the project. Gather some developers, call a vote, and use what the majority

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread costinm
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: 1. I'll -1 the attempt to switch any project to maven that I have a vote on unless there is a concerted effort to collaborate on a combined effort with centipede. Same here, I'll -1 a switch to either maven or centipede on the projects I have a

You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/2/02 8:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here, I'll -1 a switch to either maven or centipede on the projects I have a vote on until they find a way to work togheter. DVSL may be a nice language, but XSLT is the standard - regardless of how you play with the word.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision (was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 May 2002, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: 1. I'll -1 the attempt to switch any project to maven that I have a vote on unless there is a concerted effort to collaborate on a combined effort with centipede. Same here, I'll -1 a switch to either maven or

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Morgan Delagrange
I agree with pretty much everything said, although as always Jon words it a tad more strongly than I ever would. :) Let the community decide. If 51% of the developers want to use XSL, or DVSL, then that's what you should use. If you don't like it, prove that your alternative is better. But

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Seems like overkill to stop a project based on the stylesheet technology, but it's your choice to make. Its not ONLY the tag language. And its the refusal to collaborate that really irks me. Furthermore, there model of seperation of centipede looks nicer. I'd like to see the two ideas

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread GOMEZ Henri
Costin, just like with Tomcat 3 vs. Tomcat 4. We all learned that you can't force projects to work together. Nor can you vote -1 on it. Given our history, I'm really surprised to hear you trying to argue for something like that. You hypocrite. Again and again, the same bullshits. Jon, take a

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Pier Fumagalli
GOMEZ Henri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Costin, just like with Tomcat 3 vs. Tomcat 4. We all learned that you can't force projects to work together. Nor can you vote -1 on it. Given our history, I'm really surprised to hear you trying to argue for something like that. You hypocrite. Again

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
People -- Needless to say, the attitudes here are becoming more and more familiar. Andrew reminds me of the early days of dealing with Peter Donald (credit to Peter for eventually coming to his senses...I think joining the PMC helped). because I refuse to adopt things if they don't meet

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Steven Noels
Jon wrote: People -- Needless to say, the attitudes here are becoming more and more familiar. Andrew reminds me of the early days of dealing with Peter Donald (credit to Peter for eventually coming to his senses...I think joining the PMC helped). Steven reminds me of Paulo.

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Kurt Schrader
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Berin Loritsch wrote: WIth certain limitations. Where is the Nag entries, etc.? The nag entries are there now, after it was pointed out yesterday that they weren't being added. I'm not sure what etc needs to be added to the descriptor besides that, but I'm sure that we

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Cool. I like being funny :-) Hey, Paulo! Let's meet! We can become friends and switch xsl:templates! /Steven Count me in! I was thinking we could rewrite Velocity using a self expressing XSL-based language, you know make it completely declarative and have the Java done on the back with

Re: You make the decision (was Re: Quick! convert all your projectsto maven!)

2002-05-02 Thread Santiago Gala
Leo Simons wrote: (...) Andrew, consider using the CSS from the Tigris Style project http://style.tigris.org/. It's a new project, but already in use in several major OSS code bases, including Maven, Scarab, and Eyebrowse. I looked at these and they're a major pain in the *** to modify

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread GOMEZ Henri
Jon, take a closer look into tomcat-dev and you'll see that projects could works together, using others ways in JTC, coyote, jk/jk2, are the proof that tomcat developpers from 4.x and 3.3.x could works together... Yeah right... And now where do _I_ stand? Hehehehehe :) Near me my friend ;)

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread costinm
Jon calling me 'hypocrite' That is a bit funny, at least after reading his arguments on this thread. ( and how this thread started, and all his actions on this subject ). Well, as I said I will vote -1 on any switch to Maven wherever I have a vote. I never used ( and I don't plan to use

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread lloyd
You guys are so funny. My name is Hammer. I like to rave! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/2/02 11:52 AM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I need something that supports XSL in my build framework Somehow I doubt that. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/2/02 12:23 PM, GOMEZ Henri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Costin, just like with Tomcat 3 vs. Tomcat 4. We all learned that you can't force projects to work together. Nor can you vote -1 on it. Given our history, I'm really surprised to hear you trying to argue for something like that. You

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/2/02 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never used ( and I don't plan to use ) Anakia How did you generate this diff? http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-site2/docs/site/binindex.html.dif f?r1=1.70r2=1.71 Come on Costin, you keep shooting yourself in your foot.

webapp invoker doesn´t work

2002-05-02 Thread Edson Alves Pereira
I´m using Tomcat 4.0.3 and Apache 1.3.2 and the Tomcat´s invoker doesn´t call my servlets. I think that i´ve already done everything, where i can get a good howto about? With best wishes, Edson Alves Pereira __ Your

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
You're still missing the point ... The main detail to me is I'd like to use a combined collaborated project... I'd -1 solely on that. Centipede more completely fits MY needs and will make it easier for me to work with several projects that I need (not just tlaking about xsl)... I'd -1

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: on 5/2/02 1:25 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And because if we just use all jon's pet projects only jon would get anything done ;-) Maven isn't my pet project. I just like it cause it works for me. -jon And if the two were to work together as Ken

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Steven Noels
Jon wrote: on 5/2/02 11:52 AM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I need something that supports XSL in my build framework Somehow I doubt that. -jon I will submit this thread as background material for my JSR proposal based upon the existing JSR-57: Long-Term Persistence for

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Santiago Gala
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: Sure, the developers are working together on *some* stuff, but the core products they are not and my original Tomcat arguments were that it was lame to have two different containers. I got proven wrong from the point of view that enough people wanted T3 to survive. I

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Steven Noels wrote: Jon wrote: on 5/2/02 11:52 AM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I need something that supports XSL in my build framework Somehow I doubt that. -jon I will submit this thread as background material for my JSR proposal based upon the existing JSR-57: Long-Term

Re: webapp invoker doesn´t work

2002-05-02 Thread Santiago Gala
Edson Alves Pereira wrote: I´m using Tomcat 4.0.3 and Apache 1.3.2 and the Tomcat´s invoker doesn´t call my servlets. I think that i´ve already done everything, where i can get a good howto about? You happened to jump into the fire of a project join/split discussion. I'd strongly

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Steven Noels
Pedantic, I know, but here goes anyway: Leo wrote: Avalon currently uses cocoon (sort of an eat-your-own-dogfood case), and other developers would like this to stay that way. There is a tool(4) that does the same thing as the jakarta project, created by people from xml.apache. The tool

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Morgan Delagrange
- Original Message - From: Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: Re: You guys are so funny. You're still missing the point ... The main detail to me is I'd like to use a combined collaborated

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Michael McCallum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do that because I believe standards are essential - even if 'simpler' pet-solutions exist. Standards are the only way to get people to work togheter - and DocBook, HTML, XSLT are the standards. Microsoft did not get where it was by using

Re: summary: [New Subproject Proposal] ObjectBridge

2002-05-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 5/2/02 10:10 AM, Martin Poeschl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason van Zyl wrote: Hi, I would like to propose ObjectRelationalBridge (http://objectbridge.sourceforge.net/) as a top level subproject of Jakarta. the voting so far: Stefan Bodewig +1 Craig McClanahan +1 Diane

Re: [New Subproject Proposal] ObjectBridge]

2002-05-02 Thread Diane Holt
+1 Diane = ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Why am I so obnoxious about all this? My commercial alter-ego (I did start up a company 6 months ago, hopefully I will now be respected as a grown-up ;-) wants to provide such an infrastructure to my customers, since they are going already through the pain of switching from Cobol to Java/XML

Re: summary: [New Subproject Proposal] ObjectBridge

2002-05-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 09:53 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: snip I'm +1, but I really want to discuss Costin's idea making a subproject around OJB that allows other db-related projects to 'join' as peers in the subproject. From my point of view, having it open like that, and not just

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Berin Loritsch
Michael McCallum wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do that because I believe standards are essential - even if 'simpler' pet-solutions exist. Standards are the only way to get people to work togheter - and DocBook, HTML, XSLT are the standards. Microsoft did not

Re: summary: [New Subproject Proposal] ObjectBridge

2002-05-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
(sorry i wanted to delete this rather than send it) - robert On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 10:18 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote: On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 09:53 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: snip I'm +1, but I really want to discuss Costin's idea making a subproject around OJB that

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Nope I'm not missing your point. I'm just waiting for the salient points to come out. This DVSL vs. XSL thing is a complete red herring. You've said: [Andy] 2. I'll -1 anything that REQUIRES me to use DVSL if I don't want to. And? Youre point? I don't want to use DVSL. So what? and

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread jsexton
Berin Loritsch says: There are other dirty underhanded things that M$ did to get where it is today. Don't try to compare us to M$. We're not M$. Whenever someone tells me how much MSFT has done for technology, I can't help but think of how far we might have gotten if MSFT hadn't been so in

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Berin Loritsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Berin Loritsch says: There are other dirty underhanded things that M$ did to get where it is today. Don't try to compare us to M$. We're not M$. Whenever someone tells me how much MSFT has done for technology, I can't help but think of how far we might have

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 2 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 14:24:58 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: You guys are so funny. Berin Loritsch says: There are other dirty

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Berin Loritsch
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: It seems to me that authors of a build environment that they want everyone to use would think about going and asking the potential users (i.e. committers on various other projects) what their requirements are, before any attempt (by those authors, or by anyone

Database Subproject Discussion : creation of DBCommons ?

2002-05-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
I hate to interrupt all the good fun over standards, bike sheds, and general good community feelings, but I would like to solicit community opinion on something unrelated to DVSL or Jon Stevens (both of which I like, btw...) Recently, it was proposed that ObjectBridge be brought to Jakarta as

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Santiago Gala
Berin Loritsch wrote: Michael McCallum wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do that because I believe standards are essential - even if 'simpler' pet-solutions exist. Standards are the only way to get people to work togheter - and DocBook, HTML, XSLT are the

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 5/2/02 5:28 PM, Berin Loritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Berin Loritsch says: There are other dirty underhanded things that M$ did to get where it is today. Don't try to compare us to M$. We're not M$. Whenever someone tells me how much MSFT has done for

Re: Database Subproject Discussion : creation of DBCommons ?

2002-05-02 Thread Berin Loritsch
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I hate to interrupt all the good fun over standards, bike sheds, and general good community feelings, but I would like to solicit community opinion on something unrelated to DVSL or Jon Stevens (both of which I like, btw...) You're taking away all the fun :)

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Danny Angus
Jon said: On top of it, in *years*, no one has gone and replaced Jakarta-site2 with anything better. Sure, Craig did a XSLT stylesheet, but no one changed the main Jakarta site to use it and I still see new Anakia sites on Sourceforget.net all the time. Which, I believe, highlights a major

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
explain exactly WHAT that has to do with this? Who gives a rats behind about Microsoft. (warning: irony) -Andy On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 16:52, Michael McCallum wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do that because I believe standards are essential - even if 'simpler'

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Michael McCallum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You all seemed to miss my point. M$ does not support standards they make then. I dont like it but thats the way things work. I run pure gnu-linux. If you make something easy to use people use it. It becomes a standard. Simple. For complex things

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Marc Portier
Craig, great remark... otherwise: lack of constructive answers to both the outspoken and implicit questions in this thread make me wonder if those very committers here the question? want to answer? (I don't dare to question the eagerness to go and scratch the itch of course :-)) some

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Santiago Gala
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 5/2/02 5:45 PM, Santiago Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even the Velocity vs XSLT could be a case for Worse is better :-) (Seriously, I have been thinking along these lines for the last days) That's DVSL vs XSLT. I was slightly off-focus. I was thinking

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread costinm
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Michael McCallum wrote: I do that because I believe standards are essential - even if 'simpler' pet-solutions exist. Standards are the only way to get people to work togheter - and DocBook, HTML, XSLT are the standards. Microsoft did not get where it was by using

Re: Database Subproject Discussion : creation of DBCommons ?

2002-05-02 Thread Peter Donald
Hi, OJB deserves to be a peer to other projects alongside ant, avalon, struts etc A somewhat better idea IMO would be to use OJB + Torque as a trampoline for a new top-level project db.apache.org (or insert something more snappy if you want). So much like xml.apache.org deals with XML,

Re: Database Subproject Discussion : creation of DBCommons ?

2002-05-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 5/2/02 6:09 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it means no more daily messages about object relational mapping tools on this list... Right - would keep the list clear for the current important stuff... ;) then it has my full blessing! I suggest an effort be made to

Re: Database Subproject Discussion : creation of DBCommons ?

2002-05-02 Thread John McNally
I think ojb can do things like map a set of related objects to xml as well. Its not completely database centered. (I know very little about ojb, so feel free to dispute that. Just thought I would bring it up in case those that know better, are tuned out.) john mcnally On Thu, 2002-05-02 at

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread dion
I think I've been saying this long enough. . MERGE MERGE MERGE! How about we all stop the windbagging and start the code. If you've got an itch scratch it - lets take this dicsussion to Krysalis-dev, as it's completely OT here. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work:

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread dion
Berin Writes: | Craig R. McClanahan wrote: | | It seems to me that authors of a build environment that they want | everyone to use would think about going and asking the potential users | (i.e. committers on various other projects) what their requirements are, | before any attempt (by

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Fri, 3 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I've been saying this long enough. . MERGE MERGE MERGE! smiling I can't help sitting here thinking about how the committers on projects being told to MERGE MERGE MERGE must feel like two young adults whose parents want them to get married

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Fri, 3 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] As for people shoving Maven down other people's throats, I'd like to know where the Maven developers have been doing that. From what I can see the Maven developers have been fairly balanced. As I tried to point out in my parenthetical

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/2/02 4:57 PM, Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I tried to point out in my parenthetical remark -- it wasn't the Maven committers who started this whole thing ... it was our favorite iconoclast himself (Jon), who seems to believe that anything that makes him happy should

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Daniel Rall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do that because I believe standards are essential - even if 'simpler' pet-solutions exist. Standards are the only way to get people to work togheter - and DocBook, HTML, XSLT are the standards. Standards are funny things. There's always so many to choose

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
For all the nasty things Microsoft has done over the years, they have also been pretty good at one particular thing -- asking their customers (and potential customers) what they want, and listening to the answer. It seems to me that authors of a build environment that they want everyone

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
smirk/ Oddly the centipede side supports collaboration On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 19:53, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I've been saying this long enough. . MERGE MERGE MERGE! smiling I can't help sitting here thinking about how the

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
My understanding is that the Maven guys are totally against merging and collaborating. So it isn't just jon. -Andy On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 19:57, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] As for people shoving Maven down other people's throats, I'd

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I listen to the following: Code. Patches. Real suggestions for improvement. MERGE Intelligent discussion. duhhh I don't listen to the following: Flame wars about technologies used. so why did you start one Whiny people who can't learn a new technology.

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
ant. Talk is cheap and almost useless, as we've all heard the last two days. Code/Docs are far more valuable. I believe the usual way is to start with a cohesive proposal. agreed. Writing docs for centipede. As for people shoving Maven down other people's throats, I'd like to know

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
Dude, do you really need to respond to *every single* piece of mail? Jeff -Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:51 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: You guys are so funny. [part bazillion deleted] -- To

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
today I do. On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:01, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: Dude, do you really need to respond to *every single* piece of mail? Jeff -Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:51 PM To: Jakarta General List

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/2/02 5:49 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I listen to the following: Code. Patches. Real suggestions for improvement. MERGE It is your itch. Not mine. Whiny people who can't learn a new technology. I could... I just don't want to learn that

BTW - You guys aren't so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Sam Ruby
Just thought I would let you know. - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Database Subproject Discussion : creation of DBCommons ?

2002-05-02 Thread James Taylor
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 17:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I hate to interrupt all the good fun over standards, bike sheds, and general good community feelings, but I would like to solicit community opinion on something unrelated to DVSL or Jon Stevens (both of which I like, btw...) Thank god.

Re: BTW - You guys aren't so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Conor MacNeill
Sam Ruby wrote: Just thought I would let you know. - Sam Ruby +1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread dion
So much so that there have been no replies to my post on krysalis-developers. If you guys are so serious, how about continuing the discussion where it's appropriate. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Developers:

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
So lets do it. I'm working on the documentation everyone keeps complaining aboutwatch the commits. Grab a hammer and lets start talking about how to create an XSL vs DVSL module. I suggest a cent. Move to krysalis discussion list for now. I'm done here. On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:10,

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Sam Ruby
Jon Stevens wrote: I listen to the following: Code. Patches. Real suggestions for improvement. Intelligent discussion. I don't listen to the following: Flame wars about technologies used. Whiny people who can't learn a new technology. Whiny people who only use

RE: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I really wonder why it is that all one has to do is say Microsoft on any Apache thread and they get 100 responses. I wonder if it works that way on whatever-microsoft-related-lists are out there. Someone needs to update Ellison's Law,

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Michael McCallum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 03 May, 2002 10:00, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: explain exactly WHAT that has to do with this? Who gives a rats behind about Microsoft. (warning: irony) Sorry my point was whomever makes the tool easier to use will be the one that is

Re: Database Subproject Discussion : creation of DBCommons ?

2002-05-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 5/2/02 6:33 PM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, OJB deserves to be a peer to other projects alongside ant, avalon, struts etc For future reference, can we quantify this 'deservation' of peerage? I do know what you mean intuitively but there are all sorts of great things

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread James Taylor
Sam, I asked yesterday or the day before on this list what needs to be done. I'm waiting on you for a reply. I'm an active developer on maven. Yesterday we added the nag tags in that were requested. Actually (to keep everything honest) they didn't quite work out the way I expected and have

Re: webapp invoker doesn´t work

2002-05-02 Thread Daniel Rall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edson Alves Pereira) writes: I´m using Tomcat 4.0.3 and Apache 1.3.2 and the Tomcat´s invoker doesn´t call my servlets. I think that i´ve already done everything, where i can get a good howto about? Be sure you are using Catalina's default web.xml (by placing it

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Sam Ruby
dIon Gillard wrote: I don't see how we can be more accomodating other than downloading, installing and running our own Gump. From talking to Vincent on that, it's not a simple process, hence we are relying on the Gump developers to tell us where we're going wrong. Look at it from my

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread costinm
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: As I tried to point out in my parenthetical remark -- it wasn't the Maven committers who started this whole thing ... it was our favorite iconoclast himself (Jon), who seems to believe that anything that makes him happy should make everybody

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends (was Re: You make the decision(was Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!))

2002-05-02 Thread Glenn A. McAllister
On 2 May 2002, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Okay now I'm really done with the conversation If only you were... Glenn McAllister SOMA Networks, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread dion
Sam, His experience suggests that the Krysalis, Centipede, and Forrest have been very accommodating, so the ideal situation would be for an active developer on Maven to step forward. Sam, I asked yesterday or the day before on this list what needs to be done. I'm waiting on you for a reply.

Namespaces and Transforms

2002-05-02 Thread dion
Off Topic warning Sam, I hear you. I understand where you're coming from. I can also see that there are diverging ideas on project descriptors which have been solved in two ways: 1) Augment with namespace definitions, and 2) Generate from different document. The bottom line is that as long as

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread dion
Gee thanks Costin. How to alienate a group of people in one easy lesson. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Developers: http://adslgateway.multitask.com.au/developers

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 5/2/02 7:42 PM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but there must have been a reason why a different DTD was chosen than Gump's. I made an effort to document the Gump data definitions and there certainly is plenty of instance data to look at. Tell me what to change, tell me what's wrong,

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