Hello John;
...and I don't think the source would necessarily have much impact on the community.
If I had have had the source code I would have been able to investigate, patch and move forward rather than roll-back to a previous major version and then to wait an indefinite and unknown period of time until Apple resolved the issue and then to go through it all again. By having source-access I could have resolved the first issue, notified Apple of the patch, and moved to the second and third issues more quickly.
WebObjects 5.4.0 was released in October 2007. It took until around one year to get a stable version of WebObjects 5.4.X for production use. I would suggest that had the community been able to access the source code, this timeframe could have been considerably shorter. We all know that managing these releases requires time and so being able to shorten the release cycle and get more fixes into each release is of benefit to the community. Having source access under some license would help in making this possible.
cheers. ___ Andrew Lindesay www.lindesay.co.nz _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
