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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style
Date: 1998/11/15
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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