On 08/04/2007, at 4:33 AM, Adrian Wiesmann wrote:
- I am no big fan of forks. So if there is some solution in which
we do
not fork the DataViews but officially take over the maintenance off-
site
or something, I would prefer that. This would also mean we would
stay with
the name and don't change it to something else.
I think that keeping your code integrated with Cayenne would be for
the best. It would make ongoing work easier, ensure that commits to
other parts of Cayenne take your work into account, integrate with
junit tests, tie in with Cayenne documentation and give your changes
the widest audience. You could still do your work in your own svn
repository until you were ready to merge it if that was easiest for you.
I certainly would not worry about stepping on anyone's toes.
DataViews aren't being worked on by anyone right now, and this work
would be a welcome addition to Cayenne. We develop a three tier Swing
application ourselves and were thinking about moving some parts of
the code to DataRows and SQLtemplate for enhanced speed (and
transferring less data across the network). Although I haven't looked
deeply into DataViews, they appear to offer some of the same promise
as this approach - in fact to me they look slightly like a GUI for
creating SQLtemplates.
- Our SOBF Tool is released under the GPL. I would welcome if we could
change licence for the source code of the DataViews that is already
there,
or find some way to dual licence the current version of the DataViews
(Apache Licence and LGPL?). Or perhaps there is another solution.
This is
only a question of making our lives easier than of removing anyones
copyright or something.
If you add GPL/LGPL code to an existing Apache licensed code base,
then anything you release will be usable only under the more
restrictive GPL/LGPL license. This means it cannot be merged back
into Cayenne. If possible, I think the prospect of merging your
improvements back to Cayenne would be a useful one.
- We planned to integrate the DataViews into our own project on
SourceForge. But if there are other developers, I think we should
start a
new project on SourceForge. But I won't start another project if we
from
SOMAP.org are the only ones working on the DataViews. So please
raise your
hand if you are interested in helping in the development.
What would be interesting is if you could clarify what your goals are
for DataViews. Is it just to get them working against against Cayenne
3.0 or do you have some specific features you want to add?
Ari Maniatis
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