From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style
Date: 1998/11/15
Date: 1998-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3g1blw9dw.fsf@fred.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01be1008$d828fc20$65615c8b@aptiva
In article <01be1008$d828fc20$65615c8b@aptiva>,
"Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net> writes:
>> > Ever seen a design, much less a requirements document for
>> > Open Source Software ?
>>
>> Yes. Lots of them actually.
> Interesting. Can you point to some of them ?
Of the OSS projects I followed for example the Linux-PAM ('Pluggable ]
Authentification modules') project was very well spec'ed/designed/documented
from the beginning. Another example is gcc/egcs, although the requirement/new
design documents usually only apply to part of the source because they're
already working with a very large code base. A lot of OSS projects implement
based on existing specifications, e.g. like Robert pointed out GNAT based on
the ARM, Orbit/MICO (OSS CORBA ORBs) based on the CORBA specification, etc.
There are of course projects too that work more in 'explorative programming
mode', you just can't generalize.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-15 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-14 0:00 Open-Source and programming style Tom Moran
1998-11-14 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-14 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-14 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-16 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-16 0:00 ` dewarr
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