In article <94sev8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Braden McDaniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you're serious about increasing the likelihood of that
> scenario coming to pass, make the code interesting to people
> working on things other than browsers.
It is! There are a number of companies using xpcom for projects other
than browsers, including my employer. There is still work to be done
here, but declaring it is "not interesting" smacks of "someone do all
my work for me". ActiveState went into this project with its eyes wide
open, with a commitment to contribute back any changes we can make to
further our goals without diluting Mozilla's or Netscapes. Witness the
Python XPCOM bindings, and within a day of release, someone contributed
patches back to ensure it builds with stand-alone XPCOM.
If you dont find it interesting, plenty of companies with more
foresight will simply roll on without complaining (ie, will actually be
doing something constructive!)
> There are lots of projects out there that need
> similar solutions to some of the problems that
> Mozilla is solving, and
> they aren't necessarily Web browsers.
Yep - and many of them are working with xpcom today!
Dont forget to wave as they pass you by!
Mark.
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