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- In article <bdadyD3Lo9K.160@netcom.com>, bdady@netcom.com (Brian Dady) says:
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- >the same for me. This seems like a good way to do development
- >for all platforms at once (if certain details can be agreed
- >upon).
- ...
- >another, etc. I think the idea of cooperative cross-development
- >would go a long way towards insuring that all platforms have
- >the same plugins.
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- I know everyone knows I hate to be a curmudgeon, but it's those
- "certain details" and "cooperation" that will prove to be the
- obstacles in this rose-colored-glasses scheme of plug-in development.
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- No sane software developer hands over their commercial source code
- to anyone that they don't trust implicitly. Sure, a few plug-ins
- might get cross-ported this way. I do expect there to be a fair
- number of freeware plug-ins, too, that might get ported this way.
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- I continue to maintain that most software developers get nervous
- when someone merely looks over their shoulder at their code,
- not to mention zipping it all up, sending it across the unsecure
- Internet, and letting someone else re-compile and debug their code.
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