On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:33:21PM -0800, Karen Langford wrote: > We haven't received any major push back, however Danek seems concerned > about us delivering the 2 versions in the same package and the upgrade > steps involved - note these steps are outlined in Oracle's BDB reference > manual and we don't have a lot of control over them since BDB is a third > party product.
I hope that I wouldn't push you into a situation where you'd have to do substantial work on third-party code. That's certainly not my goal. > Also note our customer's have requested we deliver both versions At this point, I'd like to know why -- that's been missing from this discussion, and I can't make a decision in good conscience without it. If this was explained in the pre-inception, it needs to be explained again, because there's no record of that discussion. > I don't know if we're breaking any new ground here as with the move to > open source there must be other products in the same boat as us. Many projects delivering open source code want to deliver multiple versions of things, and it's almost always a bad idea, and they almost always don't do it. So no, this is a conversation the ARC has had many times in the past. Danek
