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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