Re: [alliance] Fw: Freedows/Alliance Split: One Year Later

[Ramon van Handel <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>]

PS, can anyone forward all these messages to Disk Druid ?
I'm losing track which have been forwarded and which haven't.

HawkeWerks Multimedia wrote:
> > > > > > *What development model is Alliance currently using?
> > > > >
> > > > > You know, I'm not sure how it's classified at the moment <GRIN>
> >
> 
> Actually, technically, we're in a very closed model, until the development
> of the CK and the SORB is more stable, plus most likely we'll need some
> native compilers.

Uh... native compilers ?
GCC sounds fine to me, it's not all that hard to port.  Porting
glibc is a hell of a job, though :)

> It's not that we're turning away any developers, it's
> just by the very fact that only three individuals are doing most of the
> coding, that we are a closed system. anyone wishing to join in would have
> to catch up with current stuff before they could do much coding. When the
> system is useable (even marginally) then we'll be in a very open arrangement.

Well, it depends on what you call 'open' or 'closed'.
I think we're open, because anybody may contribute code
(actually, we should encourage people to do so :)).
The fact that nobody actually does it is beside the
point ;)

Ramon


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