Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!well!ewhac From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: CBM's Blessing? Give me a break... Summary: CBM's blessing can be very important. Message-ID: <7149@well.UUCP> Date: 19 Sep 88 09:19:12 GMT References: <7038@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Organization: onhigh!oracle Lines: 45 Quote: "Hope is very dangerous." -- Servalan In article <7038@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes: >papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >> If you do >> thing on your own, without CBM's blessing you are simply bound to failure. > >I think my subject line says it all... > Mark, I just don't understand why you're so hostile toward CBM's tech group. Consider: o I don't use shell enhancement tools because they're non-standard. Developing software for the masses means testing it on a vanilla system. o ARP is non-standard. How many commercial houses do you know (apart from MircoSmiths) that write code for it? How many run-of-the-mill people do you know who write code using it? o ARexx is non-standard. While a nice package, its use is not as widespread as it could or should be. Now, if CBM were to buy ARP and make it part of 1.4, then its use would increase by a whole lot. I am now prepared to use a shell enhancement tool; namely, 1.3's shell. Why? Because it's standard. How many software developers do you think I would be able to convince to use the iff.library Stu and I are working on in code for public consumption? Not as many as would use it if CBM "blessed" it. When CBM blesses something, you're guaranteed that all the users will have access to the blessed thing, and can write supportable code around it. If the user calls and asks, "My program doesn't work," he won't be terribly impressed if you start giving convoluted instructions for copying the correct version of the arp.library into his LIBS: directory. On the other hand, if the user says, "My program doesn't work," you can ask, "Did you delete the iff.library from your Workbench LIBS: directory?" "Yes, I did." "Well, put it back; it needs it." Having CBM bless things relieves you of a great deal of support responsibility. If you want to do something, and it's blessed by CBM, then you are clean. If it's not blessed, You Are On Your Own. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: UUCP: pacbell > !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctor