On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:49:03 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > I also have some very simple and efficient string-matching > functions [[ for SHORT lines!! ]] and other thing we do very often. > It was (is?) throw-away code. Does it made sense to have a place > on the web where you can get these kind of canned functions? I > have perhaps 20 of these functions named and tagged. This was, I > believe, at least one idea behind C++, but at least I have never > seen any sites that offer C or C++ functions to do ``X''.
There have been efforts in the past to do something like this. For example, I still remember discovering 'clib' at http://mapage.noos.fr/emdel/clib.htm a few years ago. It seems a nice idea to build a "personal toolset", but my impression is that dumping a bunch of functions on a web page is not enough anymore. The world has been `spoiled' by open source projects, so if an effort like this expects to be taken seriously from the world, it should at least have: * A public source repository, with full history, readable from everyone and compatible with one of the Open Source SCM tools. * At least one mailing list for questions & announcements of new releases. * At least one visibly active maintainer, who is willing to fix bugs, reply to email questions, and perform other `benevolent dictator' tasks. * Up to date manpages for all the functions in the collection. This sounds like a lot of work, because it *is*. That's the price of writing something that others may want to use though. Otherwise everyone can use the GNU glib and their system libc.so library :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
