Re: [jdev] Re: The State of Our Code-bases

2004-08-28 Thread Rachel Blackman
Not to drench the end of this with gasoline. Yes, C is prone to memory leaks and bugs from misuse. That's why they made C++. :-) Since when did C++ fix the tendency towards memory leaks? Even Objective C, which uses a Smalltalkish object model and has garbage collection, is not particularly imm

[jdev] Re: The State of Our Code-bases

2004-08-28 Thread Nolan Eakins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Karneges wrote: > 1) Would it be easier to sponsor rob to complete jabberd2 rather than > sponsor > a new project with new and/or possibly inexperienced developers? I have a > feeling that if someone wanted to make a Python server they would ha

Re: [jdev] The State of Our Code-bases

2004-08-28 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 09:40:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, JD Conley wrote: > > >>> With all of these pieces laying around half complete, why aren't we > >>> picking them up and giving them a nice and polished finish? > >> Because there's no one able to pick them up?

Re: [jdev] The State of Our Code-bases

2004-08-28 Thread Justin Karneges
I agree that using Python would at least make it easier to have something stable and bugfree. However, two questions come to mind: 1) Would it be easier to sponsor rob to complete jabberd2 rather than sponsor a new project with new and/or possibly inexperienced developers? I have a feeling th

RE: [jdev] The State of Our Code-bases

2004-08-28 Thread maqi
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, JD Conley wrote: >>> With all of these pieces laying around half complete, why aren't we >>> picking them up and giving them a nice and polished finish? >> Because there's no one able to pick them up? >> When these Jabber projects die, they tend to just stay dead unless the >>

Re: [jdev] The State of Our Code-bases

2004-08-28 Thread Justin
Nolan Eakins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yesterday I was busy hacking away at Psi implementing MUC support. One of the things I was working on was arranging occupants by their role in the room. One of the tests I needed to do was change an occupant's role to make sure that

RE: [jdev] The State of Our Code-bases

2004-08-28 Thread JD Conley
See http://www.saint-andre.com/blog/2004-08.html#2004-08-16T15:49 Your opinion is shared by many... -- JD Conley > On Saturday 28 August 2004 9:12 am, Nolan Eakins wrote: > > With all of these pieces laying around half complete, why aren't we > picking > > them up and giving them a nice and pol

Re: [jdev] The State of Our Code-bases

2004-08-28 Thread Justin Karneges
On Saturday 28 August 2004 9:12 am, Nolan Eakins wrote: > With all of these pieces laying around half complete, why aren't we picking > them up and giving them a nice and polished finish? Because there's no one able to pick them up? When these Jabber projects die, they tend to just stay dead unle

[jdev] The State of Our Code-bases

2004-08-28 Thread Nolan Eakins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yesterday I was busy hacking away at Psi implementing MUC support. One of the things I was working on was arranging occupants by their role in the room. One of the tests I needed to do was change an occupant's role to make sure that the list item got p