On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:25:46PM -0500, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > Do you think that the only way to get people to use your code is to > have it included in the core AOLserver source distribution? If yes, > why? If no, then why do you keep bringing this up as an issue?
Dossy, PLEASE. You SAW the ArsDigita patch debacle four or five years ago, right? Forks, whether official or a de-facto matter of patches on patches, are expensive, obnoxious, and frustrating for everyone involved. Whenever possible, it is much better to get everyone to agree to work on a common codebase. Repeatedly making, "you can fork if you want to" type statements is not helpful, and looks like a straw man argument. Please stop that. > Do you realize that even at AOL, we don't run the stock AOLserver that > comes out of SourceForge? In our build process, we patch AOLserver then > build it? Yes. There are changes to AOLserver which even AOL hasn't Why? Unless you are protecting AOL code you don't want to release, that seems absurd, and the sort of silliness that only big companies with plenty of paid full-time coders and sysadmins would want to get into. > > Let's admit it, AS will never get so popular as apache or IIS and all > > efforts for making it popular without something that will > > differentiate it from apache is waste of time. > > Maybe I'm deluded, but I'm not ready to admit this yet. Just as we > learned about the web browser war ... the web server war is far from > over. Personally, I don't really CARE whether AOLserver is more popular than Apache or not, I only care that it's BETTER, and that it remains so. Note that the latter bit - remaining better - mostly requires only that AOLserver remain popular among top developers who are willing to devote their time to continually maintaining and improving AOLserver, and to those who may become such developers. Popularity among all OTHER users, although of some relevence, is only a secondary factor in this case. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
