Re: FMS (Java), WoT, ... - Work together!

2008/3/4 Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 18:04, bbackde-gM/[email protected] wrote:
>  > In the current discussions I miss one thing. Everyone wants to start
>  > his own thingy.
>  > It would be much more effective if all interested parties get
>  > together, decide about a design
>  > and then implement it _together_! SomeDude wrote fms and got some
>  > experience with the
>  > web of trust, now we start a WoT from scratch. Seagull already has a
>  > working (not completed)
>  > version of FMS in Java, but we start something different?
>
>  It would be great to see some code!
>

Ack! I am in contact with seagull, I hope we see the code in some SVN soon.

>
>  > Is the FMS port unneeded then? Or should WoT and FMS be competitors?
>  >
>  > No offense, I just wanted to read your thinkings about this :)
>  >
>  > I also experienced this with Frost: I am the only true Frost developer
>  > for a long time now,
>  > and again and again someone came up with its own new tools. I love
>  > competition, but
>  > as you all know there is alot to do in Frost, and we would have made a
>  > much better tool
>  > for all users if we would have worked together on Frost.
>
>  Well, with FMS, hopefully there will only be one implementation for the
>  foreseeable future. I get the impression batosai is getting impatient though.
>  I would be if I wasn't barred from working on it. :)

I understand, really. But Julien, do you really want to start with a
new WoT design instead
of using something which currently works (fms)? We have the C code for
this implementation,
and its Java port also (soon). Do you think current fms isn't the right thing?

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