From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 02:06:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD3C106564A for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:06:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72868FC1A for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:06:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl57-25.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.184.25]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id mBS26V7S023132 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:06:36 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBS26UNo040810; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:06:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mBS26T01040809; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:06:29 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gary Kline References: <20081227011335.GA29354@thought.org> <87ocyy2you.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081227015634.GB29639@thought.org> <8763l61gbd.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081227094012.GA39306@thought.org> <87zlihixlt.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081227213551.GA75428@thought.org> <87k59lgu0k.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081228014903.GA82585@thought.org> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:06:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20081228014903.GA82585@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:49:03 -0800") Message-ID: <87myehvysb.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: mBS26V7S023132 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.867, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.53, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:06:59 -0000 On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:49:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > I also have some very simple and efficient string-matching > functions [[ for SHORT lines!! ]] and other thing we do very often. > It was (is?) throw-away code. Does it made sense to have a place > on the web where you can get these kind of canned functions? I > have perhaps 20 of these functions named and tagged. This was, I > believe, at least one idea behind C++, but at least I have never > seen any sites that offer C or C++ functions to do ``X''. There have been efforts in the past to do something like this. For example, I still remember discovering 'clib' at http://mapage.noos.fr/emdel/clib.htm a few years ago. It seems a nice idea to build a "personal toolset", but my impression is that dumping a bunch of functions on a web page is not enough anymore. The world has been `spoiled' by open source projects, so if an effort like this expects to be taken seriously from the world, it should at least have: * A public source repository, with full history, readable from everyone and compatible with one of the Open Source SCM tools. * At least one mailing list for questions & announcements of new releases. * At least one visibly active maintainer, who is willing to fix bugs, reply to email questions, and perform other `benevolent dictator' tasks. * Up to date manpages for all the functions in the collection. This sounds like a lot of work, because it *is*. That's the price of writing something that others may want to use though. Otherwise everyone can use the GNU glib and their system libc.so library :)