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From: hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Old AmigaLibDisk material
Message-ID: <18436b7b.ARN04183@adspdk.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 90 10:26:51 GMT
References: <9654@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <35991@cup.portal.com> <14089@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> <18416a2a.ARN239b@chumly.ka.sub.org>
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In article <18416a2a.ARN239b@chumly.ka.sub.org>, Walter Mildenberger writes:

> In article <14089@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>, Fred Fish writes:
> 
> |[...]
> |I have been tempted to start a new policy of only including material for
> |which source is either distributed with the material, or available from the
> |author, and that such source has to be provided (even if not distributed)
> |with any submissions.  This would probably noticably cut down on the number
> |of future disks, but I think the overall quality would be higher.
> |Comments pro and con are invited...
> 
> Absolutely YES!	This would be a great improvement.
> Good binaries are ... ,well, good, but why the hell do we have to develop
> the wheel one more time ?

   No, this would hold back binaries that are very useful. Coming first to
my mind is lharc, where the author keeps the source in order to avoid a
confusion load of minor revisions. Lots of other examples of this
reasonable policy can be found.

> Well, I don't think you have to include *only* these materials, but _do_
> reduce the binaries !

   But I'm agreed on that point!

> (btw.: In times with ABI,Elf,etc. I am scared of an overall-reduction
> of sources :-(	Isn't this the wrong way ? )

   The programmer/owner percentage of microcomputers has ever been falling
from the day VisiCalc appeared, and will continue to do so. The
AmigaLibDisks have a much wider audience than programmers and .tech people.


                                                                -Henrik


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