Re: [Hardhats-members] Language extensions in GT.M - a possibility? a necessity? a bad idea?

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Zacharias
i would like to add to this. some time ago, i took part in a FNF sponsered survey on what features, progress , direction gt.m users would like to see in gt.m. i was wondering if bhasker would be able to share the results of this survey. also further greg's thoughts, is it necessary to extend

Re: [Hardhats-members] Language extensions in GT.M - a possibility? a necessity? a bad idea?

2005-10-06 Thread chuck5566
Isn't this one of the reasons GT.M was kind enough to release the source code, to allow the _community_ to produce changes/improvements/additions? Except for the very core functions that are not open-source, I believe we have the technology.  We can rebuild it.      ;-)   On Oct 6, 2005, at 11:27

RE: [Hardhats-members] Language extensions in GT.M - a possibility? a necessity? a bad idea?

2005-10-06 Thread Bhaskar, KS
I apologize if there was some earlier context to thread that I am misssing and which might help me make a more meaningful reply. I am traveling and am a few hundred e-mail messages behind, but happened to see this at the top of the stack and couldn't resist replying! We have conducted a

RE: [Hardhats-members] Language extensions in GT.M - a possibility? a necessity? a bad idea?

2005-10-06 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Chuck -- I am not sure what core functions are not open source. Every last line of source code for GT.M on x86 GNU/Linux has been released under the GPL. Note that we have chosen not to release the source code for GT.M on other platforms under the GPL (it is available for a price to those who

Re: [Hardhats-members] Language extensions in GT.M - a possibility? a necessity? a bad idea?

2005-10-06 Thread chuck5566
Bhaskar, I was thinking of hard disk writes - a misinterpretation from talks we've had, for which I gladly apologize. On Oct 6, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Bhaskar, KS wrote: Chuck -- I am not sure what core functions are not open source. Every last line of source code for GT.M on x86