Kendall Clark wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:15:23PM -0500, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > > Actually, I don't mind if other major work goes into > Webware before 1.0, > > like Jay's multi-application version of WebKit or some of Tavis's > > experimental work. I just want to make sure we're making > progress toward a > > release that we can call 1.0. > > Hey, that's pretty funny, Geoff. > > That's *exactly* what I wanted to say, i.e., I do hope that > some of the > experimental stuff makes it in before 1.0 (well, I don't care > about release > nubmers, per se; I just would like to see more of that stuff > migrate more > regularly). A good deal of the Tavis and Jay stuff strikes me > as *very* > cool, including the dependency stuff, ideas for a CacheKit, > some of the url > traversal changes, etc. > > I just figured Chuck was prolly dead set against it. :> > > As an outsider, there does sometimes seem to be some kind of > slightly odd > tension between the experimental stuff and the 'mainstream' > Webware -- at > least, a tension among some of the various proponents about > what goes in and > what doesn't. > > Anyway, thanks for making this point publicly.
I'm speaking for myself only, but the biggest problem with incorporating Tavis's changes, and the reason it hasn't even started, is that it is a _rewrite_ of Webware where many parts have been rewritten in a major way. We don't necessarily want _all_ of the changes, but in the current form it's impossible to just grab some of the changes without MAJOR effort to understand it. It's a big effort that I'm not sure any of the Webware developers really wants to undertake. If we could decouple the changes from each other, and have a separate discussion of the merits of each proposed change, then phase in the new features gradually as patches, then I could see a path for migrating Webware towards what Tavis has done. It'd probably have to be Tavis who does most of the work to create those patches. I think that Jay's multi-application and HTTP server stuff stands a very good chance of going in. From what I understand if you're not using the multi-application features then you really don't have to change anything. That makes it much easier to accept. - Geoff _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
