On 3/31/02 7:10 PM, "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> On 3/28/02 11:54 AM, "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> From: "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>>> I'm writing to this list to ask for the creation of a new module in >>> commons >>>> scratchpad called "morphos". > ... >>> Can someone please give karma to the above developers for > commons-sandbox? >>> >>> Thank you :-) >> >> All added to commons-sandbox to keep the vote from holding the project up. >> Will add sylvain at end of vote (as this *has* to be a positive outcome :) > > Thank you. :-) > My pleasure. >> Quick question - since you are doing XML, why not start in the xml > sandbox? >> (I think there is one...) > > AFAIK, the xml-commons charter is a bit different from the jakarta-commons > one. > At http://xml.apache.org/commons/ I read: > " it will also tend to be more focused on smaller, interoperable modules of > code and a very high degree of stability." That was sort of the hope for commons as well... :) > and > "to get all xml.apache.org projects to take their xml standards oriented > code - like DOM, SAX and JAXP - from specific marked builds of xml-commons" Ah. That's not too different from what we intended to do here. The idea was that jakarta projects, then oriented towards server-side java, were to have commons as a 'neutral' ground for sharing components - pooling, general utilites, bean stuff.... > Since Morphos is going to have XML as one of many formats for file > conversion (though initially the preferred), since it is going to use > Jakarta POI, and since it will (hopefully :-) use many Jakarta projects, we > thought that Jakarta Commons would have been the best solution. Indeed. > Because of this, I applaude the proposal to open the jakarta commons to all > Apache committers. That's the jakarta commons sandbox, not commons. > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting Uncertainty breeds confusion and confusion breeds despair. - Ceki Gulcu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
