Peter B. West wrote: > I'm beginning to realise what a mighty cultural gulf I'm talking across.
Every developer seems to dream of solving the versioning problem. Unfortunately, there are no universally accepted, detailed specs on what's a version and even on what problems versioning should solve. The CORBA people promised a system for solving interop problems in 3.0, and committed quite significant ressoures, but nothing usable emerged from the effort. This should indicate something. There is also the rule "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". While it would be nice to have some guidelines written down about naming releases and CVS branches, I wouldn't call version handling "broken" in FOP. This doesn't mean it can't be improved, I only say there is not much pressure to improve it. If you really like a challenge, talk the other apache projects into using a standardised top-level directory structure with one doc, one src and so on :-) J.Pietschmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
