From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 03:15:52 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 098001065677 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:15:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B9F8FC12 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:15:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mBS3GG0J073823; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:16:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:15:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:15:41 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20081228031541.GB82585@thought.org> 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> <87myehvysb.fsf@kobe.laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87myehvysb.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org 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 03:15:52 -0000 On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:06:28AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 :) > :-) Well, I knew if I asked around and the right places, that eventually i'd get an intelligent answer. When I began labeling and tagging my few fn's, i realized how much work it was ... and that is just for us BSD'ers. It wouldn't work on other systems--at least not the driver side. But that was never my primary thought. I was thinking more of the application area; code that you use maybe for a few hours or days, then pitch. Or maybe tarbar with bzip. Could this be the next hundred-thousand-dollar idea? [I'd say $million, but not with the global *D*epression we may be heading into/toward. Seriously. I realize that corporation ABC wants to wipe away corporation XYZ, say, but having this global, completely free/open source site would help both equally. Seems to me this kind of site would benefit everybody and harm no one. So the maintainer/dictator would probably have to be paid. Or else get a free honey-glazed ham on New Years. I'll check out glib. Meanwhile there is publib. It has some pretty useful functions, some of whic h I had to do the hard way, then found that liw had already done them. gary > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.17a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php