On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:46:46 -0200
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrian...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/11/2017 23:54, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:30:25 -0200
> > Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> Em 16/11/2017 14:47, William L. Thomson Jr. escreveu:  
> >>> I understand for various reasons why there are packages shipped
> >>> with Firebird sources used as part of its build, residing in
> >>> extern folder.   
> >> A not good thing, a choice among others not good things. Life is
> >> not perfect.  
> > Thanks for replying!
> > You have one of the ones I wanted split out in a repo already. :)
> > https://github.com/asfernandes/cloop
> >  
> I think cloop as a standalone project is good and was developed in
> this way really to not be very tied to Firebird source code.

Great, that was one of my goals, cloop and btyacc ideally.

> But the project wad no marketing, no documentation, not even a README,
> so it's totally unknown outside Firebird.

I am happy to help as needed there. 

> Version from Firebird diverges a bit as it's the way Firebird
> developers works. No direct contact with upstream developers to work
> on the original projects, even when the upstream is part of Firebird
> project. :D

Open source is fun. I have become the upstream for some dead Java
projects.  Either way I am happy to help as needed, Not just request
and place burden on others.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.

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