Hi Chen, On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Chen Kedem <n...@synel.co.il> wrote:
> Viktor, > > What I don't understand, is why should 3rd party lib, > or wrapper functions to such lib should be the concern > of CORE Harbour? It's not a concern for core Harbour it's a concern for Harbour users. I expect much of future development to happen outside the core, and from a users POV it's just as important to be able to use these components as easily as possible as they can now do with the core. > I am NOT talking about: > 1) Not helping such external library dev team. > 2) Not fixing bugs. > 3) Missing API issues. > > (I might not explain myself very good with all this double negative > try to bear with my English) > > Each person here is of course free to do as he/she likes, > I'm talking about the direction and goal of the project as whole. > > Why it is the job of Harbour to supply make files for any external lib > or add-on? You misunderstood me, we shouldn't supply make files for external projects, rather we should try to help them to not reinvent the wheel, and provide some sort of solution for them, which *they* can update and maintain. > For ME, any contrib part that rely on external resource in order to run > which is not part of the accepted standard OS and C compiler, > should not be included as part of the Harbour SVN tree, and should > be maintained elsewhere. I'm not sure if it's good for Harbour if we cut it off from all external components. Note that it's not just the contribs, even our core depends on external packages (slang, curses, x11, gpm, zlib, pcre) and it even contains foreign code (zlib, pcre). So we must deal with this IMO, if we want to give a usable set of functionality. Of course we can move some parts to other repositories, but currently I don't see how it could make our tree cleaner. Overall, dependence from external packages is something we simply cannot live without these days. > ========================== > > Hmm, sorry I'm talking too much again. > In practice there are less than 6 people here that actively write code > here, I'm not one of them so I probably should not tell you what to > do. I'm not even a Harbour user, and stopped using Clipper 7-8 year > ago, so I'm not even qualify as a user. No, no, I always valued you opinion and input, so keep it up please. [ I'm only using a very very small subset of all the things I used to update on SVN either. ] Brgds, Viktor
_______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
