> Well, I guess is does come down to motivation. You don't strike me as a
> person with an ego problem. but aren't you interested in letting the
> rest of the world know how useful your 'itch-scratcher' is?
I don't have an ego problem at all. Lots of people who read my emails like
to derive that from them, but the fact of the matter is that I'm just a
geek who writes code and likes to go to raves. I have a gf and a life. Big
deal...
Marketing to the rest of the world how useful ECS is isn't my priority.
Writing useful code is. I can only hope that others will "get it". Trying
to force these solutions down people's throats just isn't cool.
> Well, from other reactions over the past few hours, no-one seems to want
> it.
No, that isn't the case at all. We want it...we just don't want to do it.
Obviously you are one person out there who has this need for more
documentation. I'm sure that there are others.
> I'd be interested to know how many ECS users are around and what level
> their skills are at.
I am as well. Welcome to the OS world...it makes these types of metrics
almost imposssible. We are not selling anything here, so getting metrics
like this has been less of a priority.
> Part of my motivation here is to argue the case for a 'complete,
> cross-platform, modern, open...' approach to web development. There are
> so many disparate (and some proprietary) web development platforms. Java
> servlets on Unix seems to me to be the only viable approach in this day
> and age.
Congratulations, you "get it". ;-)
> Imagine being able to offer a solution to a newbie developer and say
> "Forget ASP or PHP, learn a language that will open all kinds of doors
> for you. Don't tie yourself to Microsoft , or anything for that matter."
Well, learning/using anything will tie you to something. That isn't the
problem...the problem is tying yourself to solutions that you are up shits
creek with if you have a problem. I have had plenty of those cases with
commercial software and vowed to attempt not to do any more web
development with cs.
> So you end up with millions of users, not just
> hundreds/thousands(guessing here).
The goal isn't world domination. It is just to provide quality software
for the people who "get it" and find it.
> Probably not, but I went down the htmlKona road, so it's time for me to
> go back and have a look at ECS.
I went down the htmlKona road 2+ years ago...I saw that it was an
excellent product and then cloned it and made it better (with MUCHO help
from Stephan). I did the same with
dbKona... <http://www.working-dogs.com/village/>.
-jon
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