Brendan sed,
"Can we agree that I want your patches? I'm not going to kiss up too
much to get them, mind you (only a little ;-). And you (and jband, and
me, and others) will no doubt have a learning curve to ride, both
code-wise and personally/ego-wise. But we want your patches, and more
-- we want your brain (well, some space in it, anyway)."
Brendan and others,
As the chief goober (says so on my desk) that started this thread I
apologize for some of the confusion I seem to have created but I am
serious about the need *somehow* for a more distinguishing XPCOM
identity. Jon Smirl's suggestion of xpcom.mozilla.org is perfect for
that. I see some other folks got a few things off their chests as well.
It's all good. Time to shake the dust off the keyboard now and then.
As for the learning curve issue, I'm working on something that I hope
will help new folks avoid some of the dead ends that I ran into when I
started this little XPCOM adventure. I can't post anything yet because
it just isn't ready so give me a few weeks on this, okay?
I've got stuff that I want running on Linux & Windows. Right now XPCOM
is the only weapon I have to make that practical. Down the road with
things like embedded Linux I'd like to do some
stripped-down-not-even-XPConnect things
with XPCOM It's this and other categories of projects where I need to
point others and NOT have them think I'm proposing a mulitmegabyte app
as the foundation for an embedded design! Some folks have posted
questions here about using XPCOM to talk to serial devices. I'd like to
do that and a bunch more.
Some of you may remember my goofy attempt at an ODBC component (back in
August). I wrote a XUL app that used the ODBC component to query some
data and mangle it via JavaScript into RDF. Hey, it worked so I put the
ODBC component out there. Problem is its Windows only. I'd like to come
back and do something a little more generic, more XP friendly like using
berkeley DB or some other DB engine.
As for the core XPCOM framework, I've got some ideas that I'd like to
bounce off the folks most familiar with the code. Brendan - you say you
are looking for more module owners. I'd like to know what corners of the
universe are in need of adoption. You might have something that is a
good fit for me.
Regards,
Rick
