Brian McCallister wrote:
On Oct 26, 2006, at 3:51 AM, Gordon Sim wrote:
Right now the feedback seems to be that the code is mainly useful as
'seed' code for a fork. Forks are clearly not ideal as they dilute
the collective effort, but sometimes they may be inevitable due to
different long term needs/aims or lack of short term resources to
make more minor adjustments to satisfy all needs.
Huh? Is this referring to Hiram's patches which work to decouple the
code to make it more easily reusable?
no idea, however having had a look at what Hiram did I would recommend
that we get the new code generators in as they
change a bit in this area, and then see which items map into that --
less rework.
I would strongly advise against preferring less reusable code in order
to make it more difficult for people to reuse the code and "guard"
against forks. Forks are usually social phenomena, not technical.
-Brian
