Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Michael McCallum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 03 May, 2002 10:00, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > explain exactly WHAT that has to do with this? Who gives a rats behind > about Microsoft. (warning: irony) Sorry my point was whomever makes the tool easier to use will be the one that is ado

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Michael McCallum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You all seemed to miss my point. M$ does not support standards they make then. I dont like it but thats the way things work. I run pure gnu-linux. If you make something easy to use people use it. It becomes a standard. Simple. For complex things

Re: You guys are so funny.

2002-05-02 Thread Michael McCallum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I do that because I believe standards are essential - even if > 'simpler' pet-solutions exist. Standards are the only way to > get people to work togheter - and DocBook, HTML, XSLT are > the standards. > Microsoft did not get where it was by using

Re: [PROPOSAL] Centaven and Friends blah blah blah

2002-05-01 Thread Michael McCallum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > Centipede opted to build upon this work. I really would like to converge > the efforts, if even only on the project definition syntax. +1 Where would be the best place to have a discussion of formalising the project definition? (as opposed to t

Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!

2002-04-30 Thread Michael McCallum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 01 May, 2002 13:59, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > Are you volunteering? yes. :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8z27EiVyQAvn9zYsRAvKzAJ9ttD0XXMIwtOb77icqTO

Re: Quick! convert all your projects to maven!

2002-04-30 Thread Michael McCallum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So why not just merge the good features of both projects together. Alternatively if each project can deal with the descriptors for the other it doesnt matter. Use whichever you like one will end up be used more. At which point take all the used fea

Re: Re: Subproject Proposal - crossdb

2002-04-22 Thread Michael McCallum
> jon, are you a bitter man? ;-) I think the point he (Jon) is trying to make is why write another tool when there are entirely suitable ones out there already. You would be far better off adding you insights to an existing project than starting a new one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Project idea

2001-07-17 Thread Michael McCallum
try this one with a BSD licence... http://sourceforge.net/projects/hsqldb On 15 Jul 2001, at 15:29, Bob Jamison wrote: > Cory L Hubert wrote: > > > I think it's time for it as well. Oracle, DB2, Sybase are planning on > >cashing in even bigger now. The .com crazy is over and people are

Re: [proposal] Jakarta Deprecation Policy

2001-05-16 Thread Michael McCallum
> > Let us not kid ourselves, a widely distributed API is expected to be backward >compatible > over *many* major and minor versions. (The distinction between minor and major >versions is > completely arbitrary.) The arbitrary nature of the revisions numbers is what gives us the ability to s

Re: [proposal] Jakarta Deprecation Policy

2001-05-16 Thread Michael McCallum
> What I propose is that we take this document (or one similar to it) and > migrate it up to the overall Jakarta Project instead of just being a Turbine > policy and get all the projects to "sign" their name on it. > > > > I think it would g

Re: jakarta/Ant naming convention nightmares

2001-03-20 Thread Michael McCallum
> > >* -. for the source distribution > I think that should be a hyphen. * -- for the source distribution Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Contibuting to the Jakarta Project

2001-03-14 Thread Michael McCallum
Try using jedit http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit if has an html mode that shows on the fly validation. Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]