>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Tweed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> Be aware that such a standard cuts both ways: what you get
Dave> is good but you probably get a substantially lower amount of
Dave> stuff. Case in point: I've got a collection of Haskell
Dave> scripts (not libraries but useful as scripts and perhaps
Dave> some small bits might be suitable for going into libraries)
Dave> which I mean to make publicly available, BUT the oldest ones
Dave> have been waiting ONE AND A HALF YEARS for me to find the
Dave> time to write reasonable documentation and check them
Dave> carefully for any site & interpreter specific dependencies.
Dave> My suggest is to perhaps have a two tier system: one where
Dave> rough-and-ready stuff can be put on the understanding that
Dave> (a) there's no guarantees of quality & (b) anyone is free to
Dave> improve it and submit the improved version without requiring
Dave> author-consent, and another with stuff verified to have a
Dave> much higher quality documentation, portability and
Dave> correctness.
I agree.
I also have some pieces of code that might be useful, but are
not well tested or documented, nor profiled for space-leaks.
Tim
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