Anthony, for example, there is work done already on XSLTC (http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/xsltc_usage.html) in Xalan. I'd like to be able to make *my* JRE distribution use this by default. To save space, i *don't* want to use the gnu xml stuff. why should i have to distribute that? see my point?
thanks, dims On 12/5/05, Anthony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:13 -0500, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > But even then, there is no guarantee that people will want to do it > > because they can't make a closed fork if they want to for whatever > > reason. (Which ASL allows and if people wanted to do that, they would > > already be participating in one of the existing VM's in the classpath > > galaxy). > > This is true. My feeling about this, as it relates to the core class > libraries, is that this is no place for proprietary innovation. Let > people innovate around JIT, GC or other technology, but we're all better > off collaborating on a first class J2SE-certifiable core class library > collection. > > The proprietary Java vendors seem to agree on this point since, as far > as I can tell, they all use the same class libraries as well. > > AG > > > -- Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/