On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:16:04PM -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: > > > > Oh, and the part of me that prefers unification rather than replication > > wants to ask, "so Apache Commons will be here in five years. how about the > > other foo-commons projects?" :-) hehehe... > > While I fully recognize that this is your master plan, there is a
What? Master plan?! I have *no* idea what you're talking about. Yah. Really. Trust me... :-) > distinct possibility that there will be another chairman in place five > years from now. :-) hehehe... hehe. You bet. > More seriously, I like to believe that this is a country where Boston > Commons and Yosemite National Park can coexist. > > Furthermore, I believe that if you look hard enough, you will find > microcommons in pretty much every code base - typically in a directory > or package or module named utils or somesuch. This is where the umpteen > implementations of base64 encoding live. > > Small pieces, loosely joined. Sure, unification of the large stuff for > all the obvious reasons, but don't sweat the small stuff. Agreed. But it also interferes with my rose-colored view, so knock it off. :-) -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
