Jon Scott Stevens wrote:
All I'm seeing is that I shouldn't pay attention to your posts (I should have learnt that a while ago, I guess) ;-) Is that good enough for you ?on 2002/12/9 8:21 AM, "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:People cannot agree on everything. Here, we're talking about relatively minor topics. This issue won't end up in a division of the community, but rather in one additional binary distribution based on the same codebase. I can live with that (well, as long as I'm not the one building them all ;-) ). If the lack of consensus spreads to more serious topics (like a 4.2.x branch), then I would agree it could be worrying.Finally, Remy is starting to see the light.
>>I'd really like to avoid the proliferation of too many distributions.
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> I don't agree with that. There is nothing wrong with giving users choices.
Sorry, no. You should try to give users as few choices as possible, if you're targetting your software at a broad audience (looking at the download stats, Tomcat has that kind of audience). You never read Joel on software, I suppose ...
On the other side of the scale, advanced users who know what they want should be able to tweak the software to the death (that's my opinion; Joel doesn't concieve software for advanced users, appatrently). Tomcat allows that. However, the golden rule is that normal people shouldn't have to care (of course, it's far from perfect, and Tomcat is still way to hard to use for the average Joe, but that's another story, and I believe we're working on it).
Remy
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