Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:06:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: (Gary W. Swearingen) <swear@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: libh learning curve, etc. Message-ID: <XFMail.20020405110611.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <qqu1qq3ens.1qq@localhost.localdomain>
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On 05-Apr-2002 Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Your project seems very important and I thought I'd investigate to see > if I wanted to try to help out. I'm just going to offer you some background information for you to correct some bogus assumptions you seem to have made. I'm sure you will take this as constructive criticism. :) Most of the libh code (about 30,000 or 50,000 (can't remember which) lines of it) was written by a single Russian programmer as a contract job for Walnut Creek CD-ROM several years ago. This code was not well documented and the current people working on libh have had to try and learn how all this code works so they can finish it up. You can't blame the current people working on libh for the fact that the original guy didn't document his code very well. What this needs is for people like yourself who grok C++ (FreeBSD is largely a collection of C programmers since the OS is in C) to help with looking at the sources to better document what is there and then finish up the work that is still needed. Also, better documentation of the various API's and interfaces would allow someone to be able to write a libh backend for a console graphics interface, a GTK interface, their own text interface, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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