Jacek, I am very disappointed to hear this. You were the originator, but a lot of work has been done by others on XSLTC since you moved on.
It does not seem ethical or even legal to take open source software -- even if you were the original architect -- and use it for your own purposes. You are correct that this alias is not the proper forum for your one-man XSLTC-2 project. Neither should you use this alias to garner information on bug fixes offered in the spirit of sharing. I seriously hope you reconsider and find a way to work within the XalanJ2 project. As others have suggested, using a branch would give you the freedom do your grand scale experimental work. Otherwise, I fear you will you will alienate yourself in the XML/XSLT community. Tom "Jacek R. Ambroziak" wrote: > > Dear XSLTC users, > > I owe you clarification about the status of > my XSLTC version, binaries of which are served > from my website www.ambrosoft.com. > The version is derived from Apache/Xalan/XSLTC 2.3.1 > which in turn is derived from my final project > at Sun Microsystems. > > I have returned to this topic because I myself need > XSLTC for my commercial work; the direct trigger was > an email from Stefano Mazzocchi on lack of benchmarking > data and bugs prohibiting him from the unrestricted use > of this promising technology in Cocoon. > > I started to work on XSLTC again after a long break > thinking that perhaps it was a matter of fixing a few > outstanding bugs and everything will be fine. > After many long days of intensive effort I realized > that the code is in fact quite far from fully > realizing the potential of the original vision. > This is my personal opinion. I am not going to discuss > details here, but improvement opportunities are numerous > and I am implementing them. > > My current version represents an uncompromising overhaul > of the code base and is no longer implementation compatible > with Xalan/XSLTC (although it is API compatible). > Therefore at this point I cannot CVS-commit nor -update > as doing so would mess up the Apache and/or my versions. > > I am calling my version "experimental" because I indeed > experiment freely with any, however far-reaching, changes > I feel are beneficial to the technology. I am addressing > performance and architectural issues with a fresh perspective. > Maybe my long break was not such a bad thing after all :-) > > This level of free experimenting would not be possible > in the context of the Xalan community effort, > neither would it be a good thing: it would be destabilizing. > > Naturally, I wouldn't be investing energy into > reenginering XSLTC if I didn't believe a worthwhile outcome > would result. > > I will continue to post information about XSLTC-2 > at my website, but I strongly feel it inaproppriate to > continue discussing it at this forum. That's why I had asked > people interested in progress/use of XSLTC-2 > to contact me directly. > > I am sorry if this explanation disappoints some of you > but I hope my results will end up being useful > to XML/Java users. > > --Jacek > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Tom Amiro -- SQA Engineer Sun XML Technology Development voice: 781-442-0589 Fax: 781-442-1437 eMail: tom.amiro@.sun.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
