On 20 May 2008, at 19:57, John Plocher wrote: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/wiki_requirements/ > >> E3 The software must be Java based >> >> In order that the wiki software can be extended and maintained, >> given the infrastructure resources, the most sensible choice of >> technology on which to base the software is Java. > > > This requirement seems out of place here. In particular, I believe > it will tend > to drive the decision away from proven, high quality wikis like > mediawiki towards > fringe offerings whose primary attribute is being written in Java. > > Personally, I'd rather trade off a slightly higher cost of > maintenance for > the huge usability, familiarity, stability and worldwide usage of > mediawiki. > > PHP, Ruby, Python and Perl are all great web-development languages; > there is no > reason why we must be Java-only by policy. "Java" may well be a > "plus" in the > evaluation, and I have no issues with it being a conditional or > optional > requirement. But it certainly isn't essential. > > > -John > > >
I agree totaly especialy since all the php, ruby and python stuff can be used with their respecitve j engines, i.e. caucus, jruby and jython .. _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
