axis-c-dev (was Re: [wsf-c-dev] Use of C++)

[James Clark]

> I think we are
> discussing about future of Axis2/C therefore better to use axis-c-dev.

Thanks for bringing this up.

What we are discussing is the future direction of WSO2's work on an C
Web Services stack.  There are a couple of possible future directions:

a) one is for us to do the work within Apache as a continuation of the
Axis2/C project; in this case WSF/C would be built (as now) on top of
Axis2/C

b) another is for us to do the work outside Apache as a pure WSO2
project hosted as wso2.org; in this case a future version of WSF/C would
be independent of Apache

One of the purposes of this discussion is to decide between (a) and (b).
This is not a matter for decision by the Apache Axis2 community.  It's
fundamentally a WSO2 company decision.  If we as a company decide we
want to do (a), then it would be appropriate to move the discussions to
the axis-c-dev list.  If on the other hand we decide to do (b), then we
would continue on this list.

I should also say that the decision between (a) and (b) is not purely
(or even primarily) a technical decision.  There are important business
issues, which it is not appropriate to discuss on this list.  But I
think it is useful to have the technical discussions here.  Even if we
decide on (a), then we can point people to the archives for a bit of
context when we start discussions in axis-c-dev.

James