[companion-discuss] Re: open code for fundamental libraries

[Eric Boutilier]

lianep at eng.sun.com wrote:

>"Jeremy Teo" writes:
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>>Hello Liane,
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>>IMHO, there are no obvious issues with your points. The key difficulty
>>up to now is getting everyone to agree on a central repository.
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>>The problem is social, not technical. If we could just all agree, and
>>get something rolling, that would be ideal. :)
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>There are some fun technical challenges involved in implementing the 
>requirements I suggested.  But I do think that the first hurdle is
>getting some agreement around a set of requirements which would allow us
>collectively to build a useful central repository.  If we can agree, I'm
>confident there's enough interest and talent around this topic to get the 
>technical implementation rolling.
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>thanks,
>liane
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This provides a great spring-board -- thanks Liane!

My initial thought is that not all the items seem to fall in the 
cateogory of common source repository requirements; some seem to be 
build-system requirements. (On the other hand, the problem could be that 
my notion of what a source repository is is way too narrow...)

Eric