Hello, Manuel,
> I have had bad experiences with gstreamer (those interested might > read the > following http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Manuel.Serrano/publi/serran > o-wadlerfest16.pdf) and I have mostly lost my interest with this > library. I was unable to open the link provided, but after some google-fu, I came up with the following link: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01340384/document Assuming this is the same paper, I can see where the frustration with gstreamer comes from. I definitely think it is an anti-pattern for libraries to set the locale without the calling application requesting them to do so. As for the problem of composability (of which the gstreamer case is but one example), I have run into similar problems and have found type systems (at least current ones) of only minor help in guaranteeing the composability of software components. Do you have concrete ideas on how we may better support safe software composition? Thank You, Joseph Donaldson
