Dude, the best of ElfData IS ElfData, and RS has had the opportunity for
years to license the code. However, they didn't and there's nothing that
would lead me to believe they would now.
The criticism on RB's utter slow string processing has been around for
years (check the NUG archives). RS didn't care back then, what makes you
think they suddenly start to care now?
Ronald Vogelaar
http://www.rovosoft.com
Daniel Stenning wrote:
All this talk about optimizing string operations got me thinking:
Wouldn't it be a good idea for some of those plugin developers and
perl/string op experts to get together and put together a plugin package -
maybe incorporating the best of ElfData etc - and put it to RS for them to
license the code ( for a price naturally ) and incorporate it in a new
version of RB - maybe one that tidies up all string stuff in a more uniform
manner. Now I know that Elfdata derive income from such plugins, but my
hunch would be that this forms a minor percentage of their overall income
and they might do better just to sell the stuff to RS for a "lump sum".
This would benefit all us RB developers and avoid us having to go for yet
another 3rd party plugin. A big reason behind this I think a lot of us
prefer to work solely within RB or our OWN plugins - because of the risks
and hassles of incorporating 3rd pty libraries into commercial projects.
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