"Quinton McCombs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hmmm... Interesting history. I can see how that might have happened. >Just like you like to actively promote your project, it would make >perfect sense that Jon, perhaps, saw no reason to provide robust support >for anything besides Velocity. In his eyes, and probabley many other at >the time, Velocity was _the_ answer.
>You are correct about the WebMacro stuff. There is still comments in >the code used for Velocity support indicating the the code was >originally copied from a WebMacro version and adpated for Velocity. It >is rather clear which came first. http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/differences.html --- cut --- Velocity was built new from the ground up. There isn't a snippet of shared code. This was originally done because WebMacro was released under a license (GPL) that is not compatible with the BSD/ASF license and we (the original authors) needed a solution that was not under a GPL license. Since then, WebMacro has been released under a dual GPL/ASF license, however, that was too late, this project was already well underway and we also felt that we have a better technical solution by going with a generated parser instead of a hand coded one. --- cut --- If you're not afraid to dig in the past, you might as well start here: http://share.whichever.com/viewcvs.cgi/dash/ Dash got renamed to be Turbine. If you google around and use the Internet Wayback-Machine, then the oldest Turbine code base where it is called "Turbine" is http://web.archive.org/web/20000815211455/http://java.apache.org/turbine/ There seem to have been snapshots available but they got lost in time and space on the internet. Ah, well. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire --- Quote of the week: "Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
