Sounds fair to me. I am sure you will see the light some day ;-). Ciao,
Mark Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > Mark J. Stang wrote: > > > I think the bottom-line is that the embedded version of Xindice is available > > to build stand-alone applications or other servers. As such, it is > > valuable > > to many members of the Xindice community. I am very disturbed that > > you see a future where it doesn't exist. Like it is a bug you plan to > > remove > > in the future. IF THAT IS THE CASE SPEAK UP NOW AND I > > WILL FIND ANOTHER DB. SO PLAN ON LIVING WITH IT > > FOR 1.X, 2.X, ETC. And no, my caps lock key is not stuck > > in upper case. > > Well, my unlimited ego is very happy to see that you consider me so > powerful in this project to remove this feature. :-) But definitely this > is not the case. I am only a voice in the Xindice community (and a > minority one on this side), and I'm not going to ask to deprecate or > remove anything: I always had mixed feelings about this driver, but I > didn't -1 it in the past, and I won't in the future: my opinion is that > software is an evolving matter, so only a community driven evolution > will be able to tell where we'll stand in the future. And more code (and > more choices) are always better than less. > > Nevertheless, I'll continue to criticize this "feature", since I still > have to be given a convincing example of this driver being really useful > (it's not really worth discussing, but my point is that the embedded > Xindice can be easily used with plain Xindice "native" API, and that > what you are trying to do is use a DBMS as a plain DB: stretching a bit > the parallel, is like using MySQL when you only need Berkeley DB. If > I'll ever have such a need, I'll probably go with Sleepycat dbxml), but > if you are using it, it's just OK to me. > > This said, I'm also going to support this driver, trying to keep it in > sync with the other ones for what will be possible to me. Just don't > expect me to be proactive on that particular side. > > Fair enough? > > Ciao, > > -- > Gianugo Rabellino -- Mark J Stang System Architect Cybershop Systems
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