Re: [GSWHackers] Future of GnusStep WebObject

[Helge Hess]

On 01.03.2004, at 21:15, Martin Häcker wrote:
> Do you all think that it would be a good thing to bring those two 
> implementations together in some form or another?

Yes, of course. NGObjWeb (the relevant part of SOPE) as well as 
gnustep-web are WO clones, so exactly the same thing from an API 
perspective. So instead of profiling and working on *two* frameworks 
(with one of them already being extensivly profiled and debugged), just 
focus on one.

Basically the same reasoning behind dumping libFoundation in favor of 
gnustep-base in OGo.

> I'd like a high-quality open-source implementation with all the 
> features - though it might be too much work to do this cleanly in a 
> short time.

What exactly are the features available in gnustep-web, but not in SOPE 
(SOPE itself has a lot more features than WO, like WebDAV and XML-RPC 
support or WOxTemplateBuilders). As far as I know, SOPE should cover 
anything available in gnustep-web.
Given that SOPE is less strict on copyright assignment, we could easily 
port over any enhancements done in gnustep-web yet still have the 
mature core.

So, I don't think that we would need a lot of time to merge efforts. 
And even if it takes some, its still worth the effort due to the huge 
amount of *saved* time afterwards.

best regards,
  Helge
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