Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
- Subject: Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
- From: Lachlan Deck <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:49:19 +1000
On 17/09/2009, at 12:24 PM, Andrew Lindesay wrote:
Here's the other thing from a developer standpoint...if they ever
were to open source it, it would surely be APSL and not GPL so you
could never borrow any of the code for anything anyway. Most Linux
distributions won't touch the APSL (see launchd and bonjour). So
really what would be the point? Just so you could recompile it?
You can already override/replace almost any part of the framework.
Or is there something in the current in the current license that's
bugging you?
On the path to WO 5.4.3 over 2007/2008, and simply when I'm trying
to understand specific behaviours, not having the source-code was/is
quite annoying
Spot on. Jad and I have gotten along very well in recent years for
this very reason. This is I suspect truer for developers making more
extensive use of the WO/EOF api.
-- I would have thought that it would be beneficial for Apple to
have all of us being able to submit suggested solutions into Radar
rather than just problems.
Indeed.
Real engineering problems however are, in my opinion, dwarfed by the
political issues around having no source-access and releases managed
as "surprises" to the user base.
Again, what he said :-)
There were some attempts made at seeding future versions of WO
(remember the downloadable maven repo zip from ADC); the problem being
it came without docs, wasn't updated regularly, etc. Should that be
revisited it'd need a channel of communication with, at the very
least, selected devs.
with regards,
--
Lachlan Deck
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