HTTPClient shouldn't be in Jakarta Commons because ...

Andy Oliver has blogged that "HTTPClient shouldn't be in Jakarta Commons because it doesn't suck."

So I know that commons being "stuff that sucks" is an unfortunate twist of how things went at Apache. On one hand it was made easy to start a Jakarta Commons project. On the other hand it was made very difficult to start a Jakarta project and a gate was put open and then later partially cracked. However, now Jakarta projects are discouraged and thus everything requires board approval (or at least acquience) to be a top level projects...but not Jakarta Commons projects. Thus commons quickly filled with sub-par things...


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· HTTPClient shouldn't be in Jakarta Commons because ... by Joseph Ottinger on Mon Aug 08 12:31:53 EDT 2005
· Absolutely useless post by Richard Collette on Mon Aug 08 13:57:13 EDT 2005
· ... by James Waldrop on Mon Aug 08 19:41:12 EDT 2005
· High water? by Bertil Gralvik on Tue Aug 09 15:41:17 EDT 2005
· why ? by pascal gehl on Tue Aug 09 15:52:31 EDT 2005
· Appology...sort of by Andrew Oliver on Tue Aug 09 18:58:20 EDT 2005
· not serverside, I meant sourceforge.net by Andrew Oliver on Tue Aug 09 18:59:37 EDT 2005
· I can't type today...need more coffee...too many nights up at 2a by Andrew Oliver on Tue Aug 09 19:03:20 EDT 2005
· Correct URL .. by Cameron Purdy on Wed Aug 10 18:48:14 EDT 2005
· Correct URL .. by Andrew Oliver on Wed Aug 10 20:12:39 EDT 2005