Peter Donald wrote:
>
> At 11:20 22/3/01 -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> >
> >Why wouldn't the import be allowed? That's one of the reasons for
> >commons : to provide a place to collaborate across projects...
>
> Go back to the original discussion. Essentially all components should not
> rely on external frameworks but should use the JavaBeans style standards.
> Any code that makes it into commons is either free of the framework or
> allowed in with the assumption that it will be refactored to be free of the
> framework.
Ok. Remember the motivation is to provide software components that can
be shared across projects. If they are tailored to one specific
framework, they won't easily be able to work in another.
If you make it more general, then I assume more people can share the
software.
> As a sharing mechanism between projects commons with it's centralized
> control is bound to fail - but then again you know my opinion on that.
> Decentralizng control was one of the things that could of made it work
> combined with cjan. Oh well...
What centralized control do you keep seeing here?
geir
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