Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ...
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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 ---
Weeeell, this license story as the driving thing could have some truth to it.
How magnanimous of you.
Look, Daniel. It's basically an open secret that the Vel-WM rift took place mostly because of personality issues. I was even looking in my old archived personal email and I realized that I have personal email correspondance in which both Vel and WM people, when alluding to these events, basically take as a given that the whole thing occurred for personal, non-technical reasons.
OTOH, that they so desperately needed all of a sudden a version of WM that was under the Apache License -- while possible, is surprising nonetheless. I dunno. I don't see how there was much of an issue in terms of just using WM with no alterations as a 3rd party lib.
You seem to be under the delusion that Velocity is technically
lacking.
I think you're under the delusion that it isn't. :-)
You should've seen WebMacro three years ago! One couldn't get away without patching it, in turn complicating its redistribution.
They surely wanted to get the thing out there and used by a lot of people. And, as noted above, the WM people did ultimately just give in on the license issue. It's available under a BSD-style license.
You've a habit of pointing out the reason for that, even if you don't associate it with licensing.
One striking thing about Velocity IMO is how technically unambitious it was.
Isn't it wonderful? One of my favorite aspects.
Yeah. Death to excellence! Long live mediocrity!
Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/
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