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Re: Non-gcc releases
Anthony Green <green@redhat.com> writes:
[Etienne Gagnon]
>> This is my biggest problem with
>> copyright assignment: it often drives away potential contributors, and
>> ends up slowing a project.
>
> I agree that this is the biggest problem with copyright assigments, but
> I don't feel it's too big a problem for libffi. Most of the libffi
> contributions from the last few years have come from the GCC community,
> who are familiar with this process. And, perhaps I am suffering from a
> lack of imagination, but I'm having trouble seeing where we need legions
> of new libffi contributors. I mean, the core work is basically done -
> modulo a few clean ups, more ports as they happen and perhaps an
> optimization or two. It's not really an ambitious project where
> development resources are desperately required.
I don't know if you are interested in a Windows port, so this may be an
issue or not:
I have seen at least 2 or 3 'hacked' versions of libffi for windows, and
hacked on another one myself. There must be a reason why this wheel is
always reinvented.
And, even on non-windows, it is my impression that docs are badly
needed.
Thomas