On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:08:04PM -0400, Daniel F. Savarese wrote: >... > Here's my take. Consumers of libraries just want canned code that solves > a problem they're facing. They don't care if the code happens to reside > along with other libraries written in/for different languages. After > categorizing by functionality, you still have to subcategorize by language
Agreed. >... > I don't > believe Jakarta Commons/XML Commons/etc. projects should be forced to move > into Apache Commons Agreed, although I would hope that (in the long run), all of the various commons projects will become unified by choice. > (if that's what we're talking about), Nope. The thread is really why we might have multiple Commons projects, and also partly to answer "which one is best for my component?" Migration of existing components from Foo Commons into Apache Commons is a choice of the dev community, and a vote from the two relevant PMCs (the existing governance PMC, and the Commons PMC) to allow the move. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
