I'm forwarding this to the mailing list to make some things clear.
X wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's not about over Table or PdfPTable!
> If any one of them properly implemented, it's fine.
> As I wrote you before, I am not writing production
> programs. I am testing capabilities before I start to
> recommend to developers. Basically we need layout
> that supports;
>
> - both row span and column spans.
> - control of border spaces.
> - nested tables.
>
> Once these can be fully supported, almost every layouts
> are supported.
>
> *I will tell you one thing that years ago, I urged several things
> to Steve Nothover, of Eclipse SWT group. Nothing improved
> for the things that was essential really functioning systems.
> *Very very very* few use SWT for GUI programming these days!
You are comparing a million dollar foundation with an
initiative that is backed by a handful of individual developers
and for which there was no company till January 10, 2008.
> *I am not supposed to write production-level iText codes. It's ok for me.
> However if you really want to be successful, you need to come
> up with APIs that support the things immaculately. Honestly I've
> looking at alternative packages. After all, it's your business!
Honestly, I appreciate your concern, but for me it's very
frustrating to get 'advice' I have heard many times before,
but not the help (contributions, money,...) to allow me to
follow that advice.
It's not that I don't want to ameliorate iText (or business),
it's just that:
1. you seem to think that iText is comparable to Eclipse.
2. you seem to think that I (Bruno Lowagie) and I alone am iText.
3. you seem to think I have the money/time to achieve the things
you suggest.
4. you suggest that all other iText users have the same problems
you are having.
OK, I'm exaggerating, but I've said this before:
I have very little time, so I'd appreciate it if you post
all these suggestions you made to the mailing list and not
to me personally. If you have something to say about iText,
bring it to the iText community, don't say it to me alone.
After all: iText is Free / Open Source Software.
With or without a company, this is not going to change.
So please bring your suggestions in the open, don't
discuss them with me privately, unless you want to
invest in the further development of this or that feature.
Basically the deal is like this (and this is not a personal
remark, it's true in general): unless invited, nobody should
use my private e-mail address for suggestions or questions
about iText. There's one exception: if you want to do business
(in other words: if you don't mind receiving an invoice), then
you can mail me and I'll think about it.
Again: I appreciate your concern and I understand that you
have nothing but the best of intentions, but right now your
mail is contra productive. It may not look like that viewed
from your side, but you'd understand when you looked at it
from my side (I receive between the 500 and 1000 e-mails a
day on this address alone; and I have many mail addresses).
The time I have to spend on filtering those mails is seriously
getting in the way of doing business!
best regards,
Bruno
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