On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Paulo Gaspar wrote:

> And I don't give a shit about how it looks to the outside
> because:
>  - This is not a commercial organization;
>
>  - If we have a specific target audience, it is a technical one
>    that makes a well informed choice... or they would be
>    flocking toward organizations with a more corporate look and
>    culture.

Given two projects which are duplicating effort, such as Commons/Excalibur
or all the DBCP-style components, or a project such as mod_webapp/jk where
the older version is still in development, I think it is important for
there to be documentation concerning the difference.

To be saying to developers/users of the code that these things do the same
and you should probably just look at the functionalities to see which you
think is best, read the archives to see which you think is still worked
on, most stable, has the best direction, is a pretty poor service.

Jakarta has long maintained two Regexp engines, and when you read the
documentation there is a part (I'm not sure if both have it) which
explains why there are two, which is better for which situation, and which
is still being improved.

This documentation is difficult to make, who is sitting in the middle
enough to write a good view, but is sorely needed. When I went looking for
the latest mod_jk and discovered mod_webapp it was very hard to discern
what their roles were. I believe because jk had just had a release.

Hen


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