On 2005.02.05, Torben Brosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps the way to reconcile this is to have two opensource AOLserver
> versions. One version meets the current project requirements (including
> AOL's internal ones).
Almost exactly four years ago on 3 Feb 2001, Scott Goodwin announced the
first fork of the AOLserver Project, called "OpenNSD":
http://listserv.aol.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0102&L=aolserver&P=7018
It didn't even get as far as doing a plain CVS import of AOLserver
sources. Go look at the SourceForge project for yourself:
http://sf.net/projects/opennsd
What's changed in the last four years that suggests another fork attempt
will be any different?
...
I just want to highlight a part of Scott's email that I provided the
link to above:
| If the code is forked, here are the things I'd like to see happen
| right away:
|
| 1. ditch Tcl 7.6
| 2. write a comprehensive regression test suite that is
| updated as new functionality is added so changes and
| patches can be tested very quickly (anyone familiar
| with Extreme Programming will understand what I mean
| here).
| 3. migrate the code to use autoconf
| 4. change all Tcl_CreateCommand's to
| Tcl_CreateObjectCommands (for faster execution)
| 5. documentation
At some points throughout the past four years, we've done #1, mostly
done #3 and #4, we somewhat started doing #5 and #2.
...
I still think that an official Steering Committee consisting of AOL and
non-AOL members, expressing what they actually need out of AOLserver,
would be much better than a code fork. I could be wrong, but we've
tried the fork before, so why not try the Steering Committee. At least
it'll be something new ...
-- Dossy
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