On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 04:16, Said Ackley wrote: > > > Hopefully this will scare Ryan into coming out of the dark and work in > > the light.. :-) > > I just finished a side-job I've been working on plus graduate school > homework Its 4am on Sunday morning. I will try to bang out what I have left > on my first pass refactoring tomorrow , uh...I mean later today. >
I understand, I'm not harping on you about not doing enough, I'm harping on you about not submitting it as you go as patches. The idea is that you'll have LESS work to do and it will be BETTER for the project as a whole. Little patches as you go (obviously they need to be compilable) means that folks who monitor the list can pick up where you leave off. A number of folks are interested in working on this (myself included) and if your sources sit on your hard drive, well... That means that we can't collaborate. So even if you change a line of code... submit it as a patch. Obviously it provides a sanity check (everything must compile) for you, but most experienced developers prefer to leave their code in compilable form at the end of the day anyhow. (either that or as you get older and I'm not there yet, you just can't remember where you left off anyhow) > I have been following the mailing lists : -) and I am definitely still in. > great, I didn't think you weren't. The idea is you said you had amassed some code locally. This is bad. You should never have more then a little unsubmitted code on your hard drive. Always send in the patches no matter how trivial. Its how collaboration works.. . okay enough of my harping. I'll leave the rest to Eric: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ :-D > The xml record generation I think is a great idea. We use it at work for > database table generation and Object-Relational mapping. > Cool. Glen will be pleased (I think). > Lets say we have a table called Document. Our xml-schema parser creates two > java files, AbsDocument.java and Document.java. AbsDocument has all of the > generated code for getting and setting data to and from the database. Then > we can add methods to Document.java w/o having to worry about adjusting our > code (most of the time) when we change our schema. > Yes. I prefer to spell out Abstract, but other than that I think we're in agreement :-) -Andy > -Ryan > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh
