On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:37, Peter Donald wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:19, Leo Simons wrote: > > > > 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. > > We have had massive numbers of forks before.
okay, I definately misphrased some stuff here. Let me try and explain what I ment. We've not had forks of the core framework before. I consider the metainfo stuff currently under development something that should move into framework once stable. As long as we have competing implementations that will be impossible. > One thing we have never > discouraged is forks. Berin will probably be the one who remembers it best - > at one stage we had 3 forks of framework cooking, we also had 4 different > pooling frameworks (3 from different people and one merged version). > > This does not even mention the number of different container forks or > revolutions we have had and continue to have (remember Merlin1 was a fork of > phoenix and I encouraged Stephen to work on it and eventually submit it to > excalibur). > > Forks are fine and healthy. Forced adoptions of untested code is never a good > idea and has always resulted in crapola that we later regret and spend a year > deprecating and replacing. very true. I am quite okay with the current divergence of efforts into multiple forks. What I am very concerned about are statements that seem to indicate there will not be convergence later, or that it will be impossible. cheers, - Leo Simons -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
