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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:12:12 +0200
From: Jeremias Maerki <dev.jeremias@greenmail.ch>
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Subject: Re: XML Graphics Commons: last call
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On 10.08.2005 23:04:37 J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> > BTW, what's a "tool"?
> 
> Anything which is not generally used by the average end user.
> I'd like to add "reusable" to the definition, but this might be
> too restricting.
> Ant tasks and other plugin-type stuff should qualify in addition
> to standalone apps.

Would you mind adding that directly to the Wiki?

> > Everybody always complains about that little library. What's the problem?
> 
> Bad name. Unpleasant associations. Flamewars. Uncontrolled playground.
> Small but extremely annoying design bugs. Endless debug sessions due to
> misleading error messages. Microsoft Avalon.

I can check in the excalibur-framework variant, if you like? :-)
http://www.apache.org/dist/excalibur/excalibur-framework/binaries/

Do you have an alternative to Avalon, oops, Excalibur Framework?

Design bugs in the configuration stuff? Would talking to the Excalibur
people about extracting the configuration package into a separate JAR be
an acceptable solution?


Jeremias Maerki


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