Subject: Re: XS: Guidelines for the discussion From: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 11:11:36 +0700 |
At 17:09 23/05/97 -0500, Alex Milowski wrote: >> 2. Bearing in mind that the point of dsssl-o (and hence XS) is to give >> implementors something reasonable to aim for, I am going to be guided >> by the principle that nothing in DSSSL that is not in Jade is going to >> be required by the specification. If James can't implement it, >> there's no point in talking about it. > >I think this should be rephrased as "all DSSSL implementors". Although >James has been doing very good work with Jade, his priorities for what goes >into Jade should not affect what goes into XS. > >James, Norbert, myself and others, as DSSSL implementors, should be able to >tell this group that the features being asked for are reasonable and >appropriate regardless of how fast they can or *want* to be implement such >features. > >Remember, there is more than James out here working on DSSSL. I agree that Jade (and myself) shouldn't have any special status in the process. But I also don't think there should be anything in the XS spec that isn't implemented in at least one implementation (preferably several) that is: - publicly available (preferably with source) - reasonably close to production quality in terms of performance (ie an implementation that is unacceptably slow shouldn't count). While it's under development, I think the XS spec can move ahead of implementation, but I would be very uncomfortable if, when it is finalized, there is anything unimplemented in it. I can make a good guess about how hard something will be to implement, but without actually implementing it I can't be sure. The only way to be really sure of ironing out all the bugs in a spec is to have it be implemented and used. James DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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