Beutifully Designed, High-Quality Products can be 'included in
Out-of-the-Box 2.1' :D

cf. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/elsewhere.html#20030715.1

Sincerely,

-- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:18:52 -0400
(Subject: Re: new forrest live site)
"Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Tetsuya, 
> 
> After being here for awhile you get a certain cynicism about what that crowd
> promises versus delivers.  I'd rather have something we maintain that WORKS
> and we can fix than something they maintain that is always broken..
> 
> Avalon culture: its beautifully designed if you can figure it out...it
> throws null pointers on launch.
> 
> Velocity culture: its ugly and dirty...it also works.
> 
> POI culture: beautiful design, great unit tests, good documentation...we'll
> optimize next release ;-)
> 
> -Andy
> 
> On 7/17/03 9:03 AM, "Tetsuya Kitahata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I completely agree with the things when poi-build used Centipede.
> > 
> > For me (translator), it was a pain, too. PAIN PAIN PAIN!!
> > I had to learn how to deal with Anakia (Velocity and Ant, XSLT), Maven
> > and Centipede. Unbelievable!  ... Jakarta is missing *consistency*
> > 
> > But, imagine. All the avalon, xml. ws-projects are using forrest and
> > forrest bot.  ... If we fail building the site and it is due to the
> > bugs of forrest, all the xml, ws, incubator-sites also fail buiding the
> > sites!! We do not have to investigate the root of the *evil* ! :D
> > 
> > Simple.... I love these kind of simpleness and smartness.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > 
> > -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > 
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> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:46:38 -0400
> > (Subject: Re: new forrest live site)
> > "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> >> If he follows through which isn't a given.  You're taking this as a single
> >> case.  I'm thinking the next time...and the time after than...and 3 weeks
> >> after that ;-)
> >> 
> >> Big pain.  Drives me nuts.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 7/17/03 8:45 AM, "Tetsuya Kitahata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> Sorry, Andy. I could not understand what drove you nuts.
> >>> 
> >>> I think things will be very simple. Jeff offered us the patches for it,
> >>> and we can accept them. So, we can build the poi website as well as
> >>> all of the xml.apache.org sites and incubator, etc.
> >>> 
> >>> For me, this seems very simple.
> >>> 
> >>> Sincerely,
> >>> 
> >>> -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >>> 
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> >>> 
> >>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:35:42 -0400
> >>> (Subject: Re: new forrest live site)
> >>> "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Man this drives me nuts.  That�s why I didn't want to use forrest.  Lessons
> >>>> learned from Centipede: the more dependencies your build has the more often
> >>>> it breaks.  $20 says they never really make it to 1.0.
> >>>> 
> >>>> You wonder why I constantly ask "do we need this dependency" when someone
> >>>> tries it?  Because its a PAIN IN THE BUTT to manage dependencies.  Every
> >>>> dependency adds a brittle link.  I like POI to stay simple and layer the
> >>>> dependencies on top of it rather than under it.
> >>>> 
> >>>> -Andy


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