It may be worth checking out if you can stomach the GPL.
Now onto my personal opinion about Xindice being stalled and retired. The reason that I decided to open source dbXML again was mainly because Xindice was stalled, and I didn't see that situation changing significantly in any reasonable amount of time.
The biggest problem I see with it is that nobody has stepped up to jump into the guts of the system and try to stabilize or build out the database core. Unless that's done, the project is very well doomed. Unfortunately, hard core database skills are very hard to come by, and so it may be quite impossible to find even one person willing to put the effort into maintaining the database core.
-- Tom Bradford - http://www.tbradford.org/ CTO - The dbXML Group - http://www.dbxml.com/ Project Labrador - http://www.dbxml.com/labrador/
On Dec 3, 2003, at 2:27 PM, Antoine Lévy-Lambert wrote:
Hi Kevin,
on the "open source market" for xml databases there are Xindice and exist.
I think that XML databases are a nice thing and that it is good that the ASF
has its own.
Do you think that exist is better than Xindice, or are you just worried that
you do not have enough committers on the project ?
I am not saying I want to become one, but maybe if you are patient there
could be some joining your group.
I need to test xindice for a project I am doing for my company.
Cheers,
Antoine
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Kevin O'Neill Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2003 22:03 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Should Xindice be retired?
There has been very little development done on Xindice over the last three
months and it may be the case that we are doing users a disservice by not
letting users know that the project is effectively inactive.
Is it time to retire the project?
-k.
(Hard hat and flame suite on ;))
