Re: Contributing software

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Kingston <<address@hidden>, address@hidden> writes:

    Jeff> I'd like to find out what people think about the whole issue
    Jeff> of contributing software to the Lout world.  At present, the
    Jeff> only Lout-related software available on the net (as far as I
    Jeff> am aware) is the Lout distribution itself. 

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    Jeff> Occasionally I get requests from people to incorporate their
    Jeff> software into the Lout distribution, but I have always
    Jeff> declined to do this so far.  The problem with it from my
    Jeff> point of view is that if I start to accept such
    Jeff> contributions, I either have to accept everything or else
    Jeff> set myself up as some kind of referee.  Neither course
    Jeff> appeals.

IMHO a tentative solution would be to ask the lout mailing list what
people think about such and such contributed software. If a
contributed software has several (satisfied) user i believe it might
be added (as a seperate ftp.cs.su.oz.au:/jeff/loutcontrib-0.1.tar.gz
file).

One thing that is lacking is a list of lout mirror ftp
sites. Australia is far from many places and ftp transmissions are not
good (at least from here, near Paris, in France). Unfortunately i
can't help since i don't have write access to any ftp server
accessible from outside of my organization (CEA).





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