> I'm not sure I see any reason for the distinction to be explicitly made.
> Xindice is a pure java solution, so while you might want to place the unix
> instructions before the windows instructions in a readme file or something,
> beyond that I think making any statements will only serve to unnecessarily
> alienate one group of people (non-OSS) without any specific advantage to a
> different group (OSS).
You're absolutely right and my propositions are only cosmetic. It's just that
I wouldn't like to read in the Xindice documentation:
How to install Xindice:
blah blah blah
Note for Linux users: replace %CATILINA_HOME% by ${CATILINA_HOME}
and have screenshots of IE all over the place. :-)
I think it's better to propose things than to impose them (e.g. changing the
documentation when nobody's watching...)
> But to target a project towards other projects based on licensing
> philosophy could undermine what it seems the real goal should be: to
> provide an outstanding open source XML database.
And I hope that I do my part. I'm not one of Xindice's core developers and I
sometimes ask myself if I have the right to impose directions to the project.
But things are moving forward and nobody complained too loudly. But if you
think I'm wrong, please correct me!
> Not all windows users are bad, (not that you implied it, but rest assured
> that implication will nevertheless be read into any statements making even
> so vague a reference), and you never know where you may get a great deal of
> support from.
And I never implied it. I'm well aware that 95%+ of the computers out there
run Windows and that Xindice will primarly be used by Windows users. But it's
not a reason not to do some PR releations. :-)
-Vladimir
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Vladimir R. Bossicard
Apache Xindice - http://xml.apache.org/xindice
