AW: Dods: A love affair between a bison and an otter - Enhydra is free !

Hi !

Sorry for that. Maybe something went wrong. I will take care of your
suggestions/fixes personally ! They are already forwarded to my
developers...

I think we have proven to many users around, that we are very responsive
to enhancement suggestions. Sometimes it may not be easy to coordinate
everything in an open source development, but we try to do our best.

We will look at your suggestions / fixes within the next days, give you
feedback about them and try to include them in the upcoming maintenance
release 5.1-4 of DODS 5.1 and Enhydra 5.1.

Hope this will improve your relationship to the (now LPGLed) otter :-)

Greetings.

Alfred

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Vladimir Ritz Bossicard [mailto:vbossica@xxxxxxxxx] 
Bereitgestellt: Donnerstag, 13. November 2003 04:31
Bereitgestellt in: Enhydra
Unterhaltung: Dods: Enhydra: A love affair between a bison and an otter
- Enhydra is free !
Betreff: Re: Dods: Enhydra: A love affair between a bison and an otter -
Enhydra is free !


> These moves guarantee the freedom of these projects and will provide 
> an ever bigger acceptance of this loved animal in the open source 
> community.

<rant>

the projects may be Open Source but what's the point if they are not
supported?  You're referring to a "community", but I still have to see
the sign of one around DODS.  Or maybe I haven't looked at the the right
place. 
In that case, please redirect me into the right direction.

I know that "if you're not happy with an OSS project, contribute!"  The
problem (for me) is that I already have contributed and that my
contributions have so far remained ignored.  Certainly for good reasons,
but since noone pointed them out, I can't fix them either.

I would understand if I had sent a vague enhancement request but the
fact is that I sent a patch to fix bugs!  So if these patches for bugs
are not applied, what else would?

</rant>

I have looked at DODS code and I think that "some" improvements could be
done to make it better (I still don't know why you have to set DODS_HOME
to use it.  I know that you have to, but it doesn't make sense to me:
You don't set LOG_4J_HOME to use log4J, so why setting DODS_HOME?).

BTW I started to fix this problem but since noone will ever commit my
patches (as of now), why should I care and share my modifications?

Hopefully this situation will be fixed soon.

Best regards,

-Vladimir

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