Hi all, >> [flatfile] is for ascii/binary files right? In this domain there is already> >> the excellent Preon project, I'm not sure it's worth competing.>> >> http://www.slideshare.net/springerw/preon-jfall-2008-presentation-746831?type=powerpoint>>> >> Emmanuel Bourg> sorry but this time - the first, maybe - I don't agree. The point is not technical, question is that here at ASF we create, build, maintain and release *community driven* projects, released under a friendly license; one of the ASF mastra has always been "community over code", that's why myself - and I guess not just myself - joined the ASF. Otherwise we should start let die a lot of commons components, including CSV, Digester, Discovery, DBCP, ... because of faster/improved existing alternatives/forks. I *personally* would avoid competing only if alternatives to our projects/components have (even a subset of) our requirements.
For what I can see[1] Preon is released under GNU-GPL - and this alone should justify the existence of an ASF Commons components such as Flatfile. Just my 2 cents, all the best, Simo [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/preon/ http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
