on 1/5/00 2:25 PM, ski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. i had to code [in PHP] a project and did not have the time to consider
> FreeTrade. and the v0.x status created a mental block: what if it failed
> in production? i was not in a position to deal with those possibilities
We have already told you that it is being used on two highly trafficked
sites. It isn't going to fail. You may find a bug here and there, but it
isn't going to be a bug that causes a complete melt down. We aren't talking
about nuclear warhead science here.
> 2. may i suggest a dual product line: FreeTrade and FreeTrade4 for the
> PHP4 version? it may be awhile before every hosting organization adopts
> PHP4
That is a great suggestion and CVS fully supports having two branches. I
suggest to Leon and JJ that when they decide to start working on F4 that
they tag and branche the CVS so that they can continue to support people
using the F3 version.
> 3. personal opinion: java is too political. i avoid it like the plague,
> almost as much as i avoid VB! <GRIN>
Dig your own holes. You have the options to be politically involved or not.
Period.
I personally hate politics and I have not only managed to be part of the 6-7
person team that got Sun (a small little company) to do their first Open
Source offering under an Apache style license <http://jakarta.apache.org/>,
but I also managed to stay out of the politics involved in such a large
undertaking (it took us almost a year to make it happen). ;-) Needless to
say, the Jakarta project is a huge success.
No offense, but staying out of something as cool as Servlets for that reason
is the lamest excuse I have heard in a long time.
-jon
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