I would be happy to help Rod with his patches to make Slide work with
commons-httpclient. I use both projects and would be glad to contribute
back to Slide. If the Slide group would like to have me (and Rod, I hope)
do this, I am all for it.
Scott Sanders - The believer in one httpclient within Apache
> I'm hoping that Rod will submit patches to Slide to get it working
correctly
> with his refactoring. That seems the logical course, since he's most
> familiar with the problems in HttpClient and how he tried to fix them. Or
> perhaps someone from Slide would volunteer to work with him. If not, then
> we do have a problem. As for any HttpClient classes that you've exposed
> externally in the Slide API, that's also a problem, depending on the
extent
> to which you've exposed those classes, and how the users are utilizing
them.
> This must have already been an issue for them, because of the inital
> repackaging.
>
> I can only assume that Rod felt refactoring was necessary in order to
> achieve a maintainable interface, so this sounds like an initial growing
> pain followed by a brighter upgrade path.
