On 04 Nov 2002 10:05:06 +0100 Keiron Liddle wrote: > Hi All, > > Not sure where to start with all this... > > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 08:34, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > Yes, for peripheral components (PDF lib, fonts etc.). > > That is one of the main problems with the old code, these components are > all linked together in bad ways, making it hard to improve and deal with > improvements to any particular part. > So work on the old code really means using the new code if these are to > be considered separate components.
Thanks for filling the white spots I left with my answer. > > I fully agree with you. That's why I mentioned my employer who actually > > understands the reasons for the redesign and looks forwards to FOP 1.0, > > but thinks that there are certain issues that have to be dealt with > > right now. That's why I'm going to look at multithreading issues in the > > maintenance branch this week. If we had enough resources (like in > > Jakarta Tomcat, XML Xerces and XML Xalan, where they maintain/maintained > > two or more dev tracks at once) I wouldn't mind a two-track-approach. > > But in our situation I tend to force the redesign so we can deliver FOP > > 1.0 as soon as possible. I'm grateful for Victor's work and I hope it > > won't be a distraction. Because distractions may leave the focus of > > potential co-developers on the maintenance branch even though the > > redesign is already quite advanced. > > I'm wondering how advanced it really needs to be before anyone wants to > work on it. It is almost suitable to be used with the docs that forrest > creates. The fact that we started to get a few patches for the redesign after our discussions in August is already a good sign. > I understand your particular situation and the required things for > production. Yeah, I'd be grateful if the situation was different. At least, it looks like I will be able to work on the redesign soon. For how long and if I'm going to get paid for it I'm still trying to check out. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
