Re: Standard Library Interest? (The Big Player ACT)

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

So I feel a little vindicated. Here we have a vendor saying that they 
wouldnt' want something that was just slapped together from odds and 
ends collected from the Internet. They need something consistent and 
well documented. In all likelihood, ACT would not be unique in this respect.

So again, I'd toss out the problem of "How do we put together such a 
library with little to no resources?" It might be possible to get 
something small going initially, but ultimately, it really has to be a 
professional, fully documented, high quality effort - not just something 
cobbled together from bits and pieces.

I think there is hope in this message, but it demands something 
different than the existing proclaimed desires of "Lets get an 
all-volunteer effort together to build some library...". Whatever gets 
done is going to need some kind of professional look and feel that won't 
be accomplished by a bunch of rag-tag developers all submitting whatever 
they feel like building this week. It is a big undertaking that needs 
significant professionalism that I doubt is going to come from good 
intentions and spare time work.

One other note: They are not seeing huge demand for some kind of big 
library like what might be found in Java, etc. If the end users start 
saying something along the lines of "We could use XYZ capability in a 
library somewhere..." and they were lobbying for it and willing to 
purchase support for it, then companies like ACT might be a little more 
motivated to do something about it.

MDC


Stephane Richard wrote:
> 
>       2. Should their needs not be met by the WG's suggestions they would
> then be looking at good quality libraries (well organized, well documented,
> good quality code with clear code documentation and coding style reflected
> throughout the effort along with test programs or libraries to be able to
> test everything out). So just throwing existing code somewhere in the
> hierarchy of the library simply wont be looked at.  Although a joint effort

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