On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > I fundamentally believe that the HTTP PMC model is flawed in > > its current form; and simply generates another 'layer' and a > > weird birthday cake. > > oh, ah? reminds me of 'democracy is the worst system of government > -- excepting all the others'. :-) My compliments; that is a very appropriate quote; and almost exactly captures what I tried to say. .. with one caveat; I believe we are getting some technology which allows us to do some slight debugging on this age old system; and get closer to the original/greek meaning of democracy. > in short: if it ain't broke, why do you want to fix it? I do not want to 'fix' httpd, not in a hurry anyway :-) it is very small compared to the other PMCs and deals with very simple/small code bases. And for the HTTP crowd that sort of change may simply never be warranted. So - sorry for giving the wrong impression there. It is the jakarta/xml ones which worry me; as they are so much bigger and deal with some much more code; a lot of which does not have a nice RFC or clear set of requirements to easily compare options or provide guidance. Dw
