LSARC/2008/059 - SQLite

[Nicolas Williams]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 03:15:57PM -0800, John Plocher wrote:
> Contracts help *SUN* developers; they leave OpenSolaris developers,
> ISVs and Customers out in the cold; worse, they reflect a very non-open
> way of thinking.  Isn't the OpenSolaris Desktop CG /more/ than simply
> the Sun GNOME development team?  Isn't there room for contributers
> (like Nicolas...) to step up and help with the resource and support
> load?  Just because *SUN* isn't going to support it doesn't mean that
> nobody else could or would...

I'm offering to help.

Also, I think fear of backwards incompatibility here would be a strong
reason to follow Dr. Hipp's advice and statically link SQLite into its
consumers.  For things in the WOS it wouldn't help because we rebuild
too often.  But mostly I think that fear of backwards incompatibility
here is overdone.

Many open source communities lack discipline when it comes to backwards
compatibility; the SQLite comunity most definitely is not amongst those.

If we ignore awesome compatibility track records, what good are they
for?  Why not go with Volatile for everything and let OpenSolaris join
the ranks of those open source communities that aren't disciplined about
compatibility?

Nico
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