Martijn Dashorst wrote: > Thanks for your vote! > > On 4/25/07, Sylvain Wallez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - it would be nice to have NOTICE, README, etc have a ".txt" extension >> for those people that use a graphical file browser. > > The reason they are without .txt is because otherwise we would get 2: > one without .txt and one with. The without is supplied by the Apache > remote resource bundle, and we overwrite it with the one provided in > the src/main/resources/META-INF directory. Until Maven gets better at > handling these files, or the resource bundle changes the extension, > I'd rather keep them in one standard (having both .txt and > extensionless files seems even more confusing).
Ah, didn't knew that. Don't get me started on Maven and all the nice^Wbad things it brings^Wimposes! >> - the NOTICE file is in my opinion overzealous. You don't need to quote >> there each and every bit of software that is used by Wicket, unless it >> does require attribution in a way similar to Apache's notice file. > > This is also our administration for external libs :), and prevents > recurring questions when someone new looks at the files. Rather have > all external deps in there, then have a discussion on whether it > belongs there or not. Unless of course having one in is a no-no. Ok, fair enough. >> - this big NOTICE file shows however that Wicket has reused-by-copying >> parts of a number of other libraries. While totally ok from a legal >> point of view, that means the project has to take care or possible >> updates, bugfixes, etc (not talking as well of the lack of >> cross-pollination of communities implies). I understand this is to >> reduce the number of external dependencies of Wicket, but most of these >> libraries are pretty common such as Doug Lea's concurrent, >> jakarta-commons-*. > > Typically we only use one or two classes from those libraries, and > therefore don't want to depend on the whole library. We also embrace > and extend those classes to fit better into the Wicket framework > (which is a bit odd framework in the MVC world). Ok, I noticed this limited use. Thanks for the explanations! Sylvain -- Sylvain Wallez - http://bluxte.net
