--- "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then there is no need for us to actually construct > development > snapshots. The build process is not onerous, and it > doesn't take 12 > hours to build. >
I agree--and am concerned that the primary motivation for these snapshots is Clay simply not taking the time to learn CVS, the version control standard of the open source world. Commands such as "cvs checkout xml-fop" and "cvs update -dPC" are hardly traumatizing. All open-source workers need to learn them, Clay included! Another concern is that since FOP 1.0 is not formed enough yet, we might not want *everyone* downloading it at this time. It may be to our benefit to continue having only the "real" developers, i.e., those CVS-literate, looking at it right now. Otherwise you run the risk of the FOP-DEV ML degenerating into "How do I download the J2SDK?", "How do I build FOP?", "How do I get Ant to work?"--type questions. Let's face it, when you have the hurdle of you-need-to-know-CVS-to-get-at-the-code, you remain with a relatively highly skilled user base, a user base that doesn't need to ask these types of questions. This is what we are currently blessed with on FOP-DEV and, given the nature of our work, what we probably should continue with. At any rate, FOP being orders of magnitude more difficult than CVS, those unable to understand the latter are probably not going to be able to help us code the former! Glen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
