>From my own little viewpoint, having code available to the developers that
is problematic and/or does not follow best practices, is worse than having
no code available. This type of code is >just a big hole for unsuspecting
devs to fall into.
Tru dat.
And if it’s a commonly available bad example, it takes on a life of its own
after a while.
mm
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Wrong? Not so very wrong, no.
[quote]
If some code exists it’s a bit better than otherwise. -) [/quote]
See… I’ve personally never believed that. That’s one reason why I’ve
never been an adherent of the OSS movement. “Here’s a lot of code that,
while it works very well in some aspects, is shit in other aspects. Please
figure out for yourself which parts of the code are which. But it’s free
and you can use it. And we had fun writing the parts that we wrote. You’re
welcome.”
From my own little viewpoint, having code available to the developers that
is problematic and/or does not follow best practices, is worse than having
no code available. This type of code is just a big hole for unsuspecting
devs to fall into.
It’s hard enough to write Windows drivers without having to deal with
additional unknowns.
This isn’t meant as a specific criticism of your endeavour. Rather, it’s my
view on the whole genre.
Peter
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