I agree with your sentiments - its an important debate, but I guess a podcast is not the place for it.
So perhaps should be left to the thunderdome: "2 technologies enter, only 1 leaves" type scenario ;) I also note Dick sounded very stressed in the episode, was an unusual one... On Jun 29, 11:03 am, Alan Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Posse, > > I love and continue to love the show and really appreciate all the hard > work you guys put in, completely voluntarily. Its my #1 podcast. To > Dick (Groovy) Wall, if you feel that ignoring JigSaw and OSGI keep you > more motivated and enjoying doing the podcast, then go for it. Add them > to your spam filters! The fact that the posse enjoy what you do I think > is one of the things that makes the show so enjoyable to listen to. Its > great! I love it! Keep it coming! > > I found both the OSGI and JigSaw interviews interesting - thanks for > doing them. But I also found it interesting that from the interviews > neither came out as being a clearly superior replacement of the other. > I suspect this means that longer, deeper articles are required to delve > into the topic - not something you would get on a podcast due to its > format. It has always seemed to me their primary value propositions are > different: OSGI value is it allows code to be dynamically loaded at run > time, and JigSaw is tackling breaking up the JVM and includes compile > time changes to support modules too. > > But frankly, as a long time podcast listener, I don't care that some > feel JigSaw should not exist and OSGI should rule the world. Both *are* > going to exist no matter what is said on this list. So to me further > discussion along those lines is boring and a complete waste of time. I > am more interested to learn more over time how the technical merits of > one or the other solve real problems. So Dick, I would personally > consider it a great *favor* if you ignored that sort of content on the > podcast. > > Oh, I have added another email address to my spam filter as not > contributing any technical value to some of the great conversations on > this list. > > Alan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
