On August 14, 2008 at 13:40, Norman Walsh wrote: > I'm unlikely to have a lot of time to work on it, so I think it's > reasonable to transition the maintenance over to others.
Thanks for responding. It does seem that some action on commons-resolver is occuring, with those having commit access starting to incorporate patches that have been submitted. I've submiited a signed license document so ASF can include the patches I have posted. > In the meantime, I did rewrite it a while back, see > xmlresolver.dev.java.net. I'll try to take a look at it when I get time. > My motivations for the rewrite were at least three-fold: > > 1. The design of the current code base really isn't all that good. I > didn't know all that much Java when I started and I think some of > my choices were poor ones. (Some of my new choices may be poor too, > of course :-). I think we all can look at code we have written in the past and realized things could have been done better :) It seems the features you have added into your newer project could be added into commons-resolver if there is enough demand for such features. One thing that may be a problem with your rewrite is the license you have for it: GPL. I personally have no problems with the GPL, but the license may be prohibitive for some. This could prevent any potential transition to a newer resolver implementation for some projects. Good luck with your new job, --ewh -- Earl Hood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: <http://www.earlhood.com/> PGP Public Key: <http://www.earlhood.com/gpgpubkey.txt>
