Here's an example where a change in policy could add a raft of code to mmbase: "utilities". I've had to develop my own little utilities for getting the next posrel pos field, for ordering resultsets, for getting the "n'th" position, etc. I wondered if anybody else had done this sort of thing before, then it occurred to me that surely MOST people have done this before - in a similar veign, ie. as a utility within their code. That code is not finding it's way back into mmbase - I assume because most utility writers are application developers and not core developers.
Perhaps I'm mistaken regarding posrel and don't know mmbase well enough to judge it, but it's the principle of sharing code that's at stake here. At the moment there is the core and there are applications, what about the things that every coder repeats for every application? Surely there should be an "utilities" section with anyone allowed to contribute code - assembled by someone at some stage as the much touted "framework" (of which there could be many)? cheers Emile _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
