On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 12:01, Jeff Turner wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 09:44:08AM +0200, Leo Simons wrote: > ... > > IOW, the community as a whole wants agreement on the stuff being > > discussed, and if you won't reach it, all of it will be rejected. > > There are 280 subscribers to this list [1]. I'd guess about 5 or so > actually know what all the fuss is about ;) So I doubt if "the community > as a whole wants agreement".
they just don't know they do =) > > Which will lead to forking, competition, the community falling > > apart > > IMHO, there's absolutely nothing wrong with forking if forkers don't > abuse the Avalon brand, and enough information is provided to let users > choose. The healthiest approach is to encourage diversity on one hand, > and facilitate darwinian selection on the other. If you're worried about > forks hurting the Avalon brand, then create a fork that unifies the > other forks, and see if that flies ;) hmm. We've not had a fork before. Thing is, if your framework is about interoperability, and then there's competing frameworks within that framework that are not interoperable, well, added value of the framework diminishes a lot more quickly than for, say, a servlet container. that's what all the fuss is about. cheers, - Leo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
