Re: Standard Library Interest?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

It won't work. It hasn't worked.

If you can at *minimum* get the vendors to give you a nod that says 
"Yes, if such a thing were done under the control of this organization 
and with this sort of license and to some level of acceptable quality, 
we'd get on board and distribute it...", then you've got something. They 
don't have to commit to the library and wouldn't want to until they saw 
the net result.

But if the answer is "No. We will not now, nor will we ever distribute a 
library built by this organization with that license, etc., - not unless 
it is totally rammed down our throats by the end users...", then the 
game is over.

Don't waste time trying to get some organization together and get a 
project started unless you know from the start that the ultimate 
authority on acceptance is at least willing to consider it a 
possibility. So far, I have no indication that this is the case.

MDC


Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
> I believe this will happen as a natural consequence of doing this
> important work. The vendor won't want to incurr extra work, unless
> there is some wild advantage to them doing so.
> 
> I believe that this effort merely needs to organize the naming
> conventions such that it is not likely to stomp on some existing
> vendor naming convention. Surely industry experience can steer
> us away from most of these problem areas without waiting for
> vendors?
> 

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