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Re: The case for SDKs
From:
Peter Scott
Date:
August 3, 2001 15:41
Subject:
Re: The case for SDKs
Message ID:
4.3.2.7.2.20010803153714.00b00d80@mail.webquarry.com
At 12:17 AM 8/4/01 +0200, Abigail wrote:
>If the pumpking is going to bless a single bundle, which one will he
>bless? The fastest? The one with the most features? The smallest memory
>print? The one with the OO interface? The one with the most maintainable
>code?
All of these questions could be applied to Perl itself, and yet somehow we
manage to make decisions and have only the one (stable) version.
>And what does the pumpking do if a "better" SDK comes along next
>week? Curse the previous bundle and bless the new one? Ignore the new
>one? What does the next pumpking do if she has other ideas of "the best"?
Same thing they do now; release a new version of the SDK. At which time,
any issues of backward incompatibility will be roundly debated on the
appropriate mailing list, and if the answers are inadequate, the pumpqueen
will be overthrown in a bloody coup by programmers flinging dead Java
programs over the walls with a trebuchet.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com