This is going to sound like a grumpy old man talking, but it's sounding
more and more like that 2.0 tree is considered, by many of the
developers, little more than a playground to hack around in. There
seems very little regard for end users or developers ("API changes
with every release... yeah, so what."). Are people hacking 2.0
(or 2.1) because it's fun to do and a neat project, or is there
a desire that *people actually use the code*?I'm certainly not saying that we ship broken or stupid code simply to get it out, but certainly people should be aware that, when all is said and done, isn't the whole idea of ASF projects is that people are encouraged to use them? Yeah, we should allow the API to grow and mature, but having it "constantly" change means, at a very core level, we have no idea what it should be doing or how it should be doing it. I know some of this is not germane to the current question and issue, but some of it is. Recall that when all this started, we were users who developed because we were users; we weren't developers who simply used what we developed. It was real, not an programming exercise. Anyway, I've most likely upset a few people, and I apologize in advance. Just take these words from someone who *still* wants Apache to achieve world domination :) -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both and deserve neither" - T.Jefferson
