On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:49, Leo Sutic wrote: > Finally, > 1. Phoenix may be owned by the "community", but decisions are made by > individuals. I don't believe that there is such a thing as "the community > decided". Individuals decided. Peter's CVS logs indicate hat he has made a > load of decisions regarding Phoenix, and his involvement with Phoenix > indicates that he will do many more. I therefore believe I am in my full > right to ask him what those future decisions may be.
Err. Most of the decisions about Phoenixs interface to components was decided a long time ago. The classloader stuff was originally proposed about 2 years ago and the design finalized at the begining of 2001 IIRC. The recent implementation only changed one facet (it declared predefined classloaders) from the design. The requestShutdown() stuff has also been discussed to death before and agreed upon. See febuary of this year for the previous round (though the question can be traced back about 1.5 years). New changes to external interface (ie deprecation of Block) will get raised on the lists and voted on. As for minor internal design issues that don't effect end users. Most of those are subject to lazy consensus - if people don't approve they are free to raise issues. As for major design issues of the internals - I don't think we have had many for a long time. -- Cheers, Peter Donald *---------------------------------------------------------* | Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is user-friendly. It | | just happens to be selective on who it makes friendship | | with. | | - Richard Cook | *---------------------------------------------------------* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
