Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > yes and, admittedly, this sucks from a diversity of community perspective. But > should I remind you that Xalan suffered more or less the same problem for at > least 18 months?
Nope - and IMO, the *core* xml.apache.org tools are still quite heavily 'supported' by Sun or IBM. Dunnow how this is at the other side of the pond (Jakarta, especially Tomcat). Oh well - I'm in a rant mode these days: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103539/2002/10/09.html#a37 >>, and I recently organized an XSLT seminar with Michael Kay who >>was quite 'amused' w.r.t. XSLTC compliance & partial performance >>optimalization of XSLTC. But he's obviously biased :-) > > > Can you please elaborate more on this? No bare facts to support this, sorry. It was something he muttered upon my questions on XSLTC. >>>Anyway, just a reminder: you never get people to scratch if you don't >>>create some itches :) >> >>Would that be itches or just pet peeves? ;-) > > > I think nobody here gives a damn about what XSLT engine they are using as long > as it's fast and compliant. I'll leave ego fights to those who still enjoy them. Hey, cool down ;-) You and Ivelin have been advocating XSLTC for a long time - and I value your effort doing so. But we are allowed to make jokes, no? <snip/> >>I believe we should definitely start warning people upfront that they >>really should stick to release versions, instead of relying on CVS >>checkouts of HEAD/2.1-dev - for some reason, there's quite some people >>using CVS instead of our release version. But that's another rant. > > > I think that a WARNING page is enough for people that want to try things out > and know where we are heading and planning in advance. And I think they know > very well the cost of rewriting things when something change under your feet. > The use of open source software is partially because of that. Nope, it's not enough. A lot of people are using daily CVS builds as development/production infrastructure, which is good for bugtesting, but also brings an enormous amount of 'this was working in CVS of dd-mm-yyyy' mails to the list. They should be motivated to use stable builds instead, maybe by backporting some of the nicer 2.1 HEAD features to 2.0.3. </Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
