STEP UP PHOBOS DEVELOPMENT 10 FOLD
Derek Parnell
derek at psych.ward
Fri Jun 16 18:22:54 PDT 2006
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:18:02 +1000, Chad J
<gamerChad at _spamIsBad_gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrei Khropov wrote:
>> There're different approaches possible:
>> 1) Minimalistic C/C++ like - std lib contains only small set of
>> necessary
>> things. Everything else is available through 3rd party libs.
>> 2) Maximalistic Java/.NET like - std lib contains lots of stuff.
>>
>
> This has always been bugging me. What are the reasons to do a
> minimalistic lib, besides us not having to write so much stuff?
The more you have to more you have to look after. Walter is only one
person and doesn't command a team of maintenance staff. Even though Phobos
is open source, it is not managed very well from a collabaration point of
view. Each submission is still hand managed by Walter for inclusion.
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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
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