Re: Future directions
gruntz@oberon.ch
Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:26:24 +0200
> 2. I believe, that a lot of you have written small modules, which are help
> for your personal work. But you think that they are not generic enough for
> public use, I sugges. So I am, for example: I've written a module for
> reading gif-files, it works for fine my reason, but it is not realy
> integrated in the Oberon/F-structure. Because there was no need for me.
> That's the reason why you could not find it anywhere. So the question is: Is
> there an interrest to look at not "perfect", particular "components"? For
> me, I would like to see how others have solved their special problems.
I think that would definitely be very interesting. We already have several
archives which contain public domain software which shows how useful
tasks can be solved using Oberon/F. Why not contributing such modules
to the software archive Guy or Bob is managing?
- Dominik