brain dump, and probably not politically correct. oh, well. Scott Sanders wrote: > > The only thing I actually worry about is getting too many j-c'ers > over here, and not having an equivalent viewpoint from the non-java > side. If the c/perl/python/yal side is not represented here, we > may have the same amount of 'brokeness' that exists in j-c today > in some people's minds.
[perl i think is a non-starter here because of cpan. :-)] greg is a rabid python person; i'm not a java person, ... as mentioned, i intend to keep the pmc small, diverse, and [relatively] objective until it's clear that it won't be overwhelmed as you fear. so, fair warning: i'm going to scrutinise any suggestion by j-c people according to 'would this make life harder for any other language/environment?' i think it's quite possible that some j-c people won't even be aware that some things are well-suited to java but poorly-suited to other language. (directory hierarchy, for instance, off the top of my head.) so things that are applicable across the board: good. things that are neutral else where but good for java: not ideal, but okey. things that benefit java but cause problems for other languages: bad. but as far as that goes, i'll similarly examine suggestions from other languages and have to rely on the opinion of the java people here about whether it would make things more difficult for them. 'that's not the way j-c does things' will never be a valid reason by itself, though. for the life of me i can't think of anything that would fall into this sort of category, technically, so the alternate light under which i'll be examining things would be along the lines of 'is this within the a-c scope and does it further its purposes?' with caution that things might be proposed 'because that's the way we liked in in <elsewhere>' and not because of any implicit merit. i'm confusing myself, so i'd better stop this message now. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
