Library Development: What to finish/flesh out?

spir denis.spir at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 06:04:03 PDT 2011


On 03/26/2011 04:43 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I find the responses to this list to be rather interesting. Most of it, I find
> to be of mild interest at best (certainly for the sort of stuff that _I_ do
> anyway), but others find some of them to be very desirable.
>
>> >  List in order from most to least finished:
>> >
>> >  1.  Rational:  A library for handling rational numbers exactly.  Templated
>> >  on integer type, can use BigInts for guaranteed accuracy, or fixed-width
>> >  integers for more speed where the denominator and numerator will be small.
>> >    Completion state:  Mostly finished.  Just need to fix a litte bit rot and
>> >  submit for review.  (Phobos candidate)
> Potentially interesting, but I don't know if I'd ever use it.

That's it: never ever listen to people to know what they /really/ need, really 
find useful, really appreciate. Many are able to push like crazy for thingies 
that just look cool (esp at design time), but none of them will actually use 
for three years. (experienced ;-)

Denis
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