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- Item 8838333 9-Jan-90 23:36
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- From: D5295 Reseach SW Design, D Goldman,PRT
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- To: MADA MacApp Dev Assoc, C Nelson,VCA
- POWERUP.DEV Power Up Software,PRT
- ALANDAIL AS & M, Alan Dail,PRT
- STATTENFIELD Stattenfield, Keith
- PAPERFREE PaperFree, Joel Benisch,PRT
- D3904 The Complete PC,PRT
- GER.XSE0026 Germany - Systematics Softworks
- MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Guerilla II.1
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- Dear Carl, James, Alan, Keith, Joel, Perry, Mike, and anyone who has responded
- to MacApp.TECH$ and not directly to me (I wait for each week's archives, so I
- may be a bit behind here),
-
- It sounds like there are enough people interested (even an Apple volunteer!)
- for this to be tried. I'm sorry I won't be able to make the San Diego
- get-together, which does sound like the ideal place to discuss this in three
- dimensions.
-
- Carl, I did not mean to impugn (anybody got a spell-checker for AppleLink?)
- MADA in any way. The only response I'd seen from MADA was Bill Anderson's reply
- to Mike Fischer (5 January, Archive #0343) regarding MADA distribution of code,
- which seemed to me a little off the point. Thank you for clarifying "buying
- code" vs "redistributing code" -- you're quite right about the distinction.
-
- I also think you're right that AppleLink should be just part of the ultimate
- code distribution system. Certainly any "final" code posted on AppleLink should
- also go on MADA's own BBS, be available on disk from MADA, and be described
- and/or reproduced in FrameWorks.
-
- AppleLink looks like the place for the *development* phase of code, though.
- Those most likely to be involved log in here regularly, and (for most of us,
- anyway) it's a local call. (I'm assuming the MADA BBS will only be local for
- Puget Sounders?)
-
- James, I agree that this is an anti-capitalistic plan. (Though I think an
- Israeli kibbutz might be a closer model than Romania…) However, look at all the
- MacApp.TECH$ links (including your own) of the form "Has anybody solved this
- problem…" or "Here's how I solved it… [continues for five screens of code]". We
- are *already* sharing code for free! But it's in dribs and drabs, and you have
- to search through FrameWorks and the archives to find things which you sort of
- remember reading a couple months previously when it didn't seem particularly
- relevant…
-
- I figure that when I've written a useful general subclass of something, it will
- benefit me to have some other programmers look it over and offer suggestions.
- And it will probably benefit them, obviously, or they wouldn't be looking at it
- in the first place.
-
- In my case, I would consider my attempt to flesh out TTEView to fit this scheme
- nicely -- I don't loose anything by sharing it, since it only accomplishes what
- Apple already claims (to the general public) all Mac applications do: adhere to
- a common interface. On the other hand, I've also got other object classes that
- do things which I would like my final application to get credit for, and those
- I'll keep to myself (at least until my app ships).
-
- Carl: Yes, I guess I have gone and volunteered myself to set up and maintain
- this shebang. Doing it under the auspices of MADA would be fine with me. (A
- free account, you say?)
-
- I'd like to leave the floor open for further feedback (how many metaphors can
- YOU count in this sentence?), and perhaps wait for the San Diego conference
- (link me from there, if anything develops) before implementing anything. Or
- maybe just start next week. I'm open to suggestions.
-
-
- -- Dave Goldman, D5295
- Research Software Design
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-