On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 12:40:58 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
There's maybe a 'political' motivation
behind my point of vieuw: forcing
application writers to use a library to access an otherwise undocumented
interface reminds me too much of some commercial practices that I dislike.
I really feel this goes against the spirit of any open source project.
Yup, I agree, we should be forcing developers to use a single library.
If we use an open, well-known format with plenty of parsers available
(hint-hint ;) then its a non-requirement.
- Steve