On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > Robert Simmons wrote: > > > I wasnt accusing anyone of being childish. I wish you wouldnt put words in > > my mouth. I merely meant that the demands of a business environment are > > quite different then the demands of non-business environments. > > Please rest assured that many (probably most) of us know what the > demands of business environments are. > > > Many open > > source projects have yet to bridge this gulf and only a few have done it > > sucessfully (apache web server, ant, log4j, tomcat, jboss). For example, the > > decision to NOT distribute a binary build of cocoon is a good example of > > going in the opposite direction of business. Many business consultants are > > not interested in building source, but rather using the product as is. > > Oh, gosh... will not distributing a binary build be enough for us not to > "cross the bridge"? Let's have a party on this side of the river with > Linus then. Oh, and please tell me where you are going to find Gnome or > KDE binary distributions (RPM, DEB and other linux distro packages don't > count). And tell the FreeBSD guys that their port system is doomed. > > Anyway, here is your binary distribution: > > $ cat > setup.sh > ./build.sh war > install.log 2>&1 > if [ $? == 0 ] > then > echo "Installation successful, Cocoon war installed in > `pwd`/build/cocoon.war" > else > echo "Installation failed, plese check install.log for details" > fi > ^D > > Rant apart, you might have a point in blaming Cocoon of not being > "business friendly", and I'm starting to consider that there might be > room for someone to come up and be Cocoon's RedHat, providing > "production" builds and "certified" WARs, thus relieving the Cocoon > community in these issues. Any Orixians listening? ;-))
Thanks for taking the energy. I couldn't say it any better. -- Giacomo Pati Otego AG, Switzerland - http://www.otego.com Orixo, the XML business alliance - http://www.orixo.com
