== Quote from Ary Borenszweig (a...@esperanto.org.ar)'s article > When I download a library for Java, Python or C#, I download it, > reference it and it works. If I had to fix something for it to work, I > woudldn't use it. Mainly because to fix it I'd had to understand the > code, and I just want to understand the interface. > If you have to modify a library when you download it just to make it > work (not to tweak it), that's a huge problem for me.
Agreed, but if the library is being actively maintained, the library developer will do this. If it's not being maintained, well, we do have a lot of abandoned stuff out on dource, but I wouldn't want to use a library if noone understands it and cares enough to fix a few trivial bugs.
