> Sigh. That isn't the argument. The argument is about following what > conventions we do have. It could be about coding, voting policies, > whatever...if people ignore the rules, then we shouldn't bother having rules > at all.
I'm going through exactly this situation in my new employment. One great reasoning for ignoring the coding convention: "Sun don't obey their coding convention internally. " It seems to me to be a similar reason for why open source Java should use the Apache licence. It's the biggest fish we have to be a littler fish in other seas. My view on the OS Java world has been that the Apache licenced software is in the majority, would be nice to do the maths and see if that's true. Arguing and fragmenting the 'standard' will cause the effectiveness of the community to fail, which is a shame as Sun's conventions, when obeyed, do create relatively homogenous code. Bay -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
