Michael P. McCutcheon wrote:
I looked at the XSLTExample, and it is quite a bit more complex than the DOMtoJ3D utility, but as long as it works, that'll be great.
It's a little, but not much more. You can hide most of it if you do it once. In future work we might wrap it up a bit to make it easier to work with, but that really depends on our future demands.
I hope that you make a pre-compiled download of M6 without the installer. I personally like the simpler downloads that just have all of the pre-compiled .jars in them :)
There will be. Windows users are the only ones that need the hand-holding of an installer. Everyone else seems to be more comfortable with a zip file and DIY.
As for the open sourceness of it, I sincerely hope that it stays open. I believe that as this stuff becomes more visible, the open-sourcenesss will become more important.
Ah, a misunderstanding. It always will be open source. However, we will end up doing something like the RedHat model which is to stick a box around a CD and some better manuals and then selling that at some price point. Military and Government folks are not interested in zip files or even downloadable installers. They need something that they can charge money to and hold something physical in their hand. That's the market we're catering too. Things are OK now, but in a few months, one of our main contracts runs out and so we need to start getting other people to cough up cash to continue the development. Putting it in a box and selling it is one way of doing that. We've got other ideas, but haven't really looked at it (the JBoss model of selling documentation is another).
Just out of curiosity, why isn't Apache ANT used for the build process?
See the archives for a detailed response to this as I've already been through this a number of times: ANT is a useless toy that is not useful for building serious projects. -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
