> We will have massive difficulty getting anyone to use our classic
> applications or libraries while ./mk exists.
This is something Tim Jenness and I have been saying for several years
now. It was one of the reasons we wrapped the entire SSC inside RPMs
when I was out at the JAC.
> If folk can't type ./configure;make they immediately and automatically
> think the software is wierd/old/quixotic/unstable/unmaintained,
> matteradamn how much you say otherwise in the README. I know that
> there are a couple of counterexamples such as Bill Joye, AST and DS9,
> but the fact that there are so few for an obviously superior library
> should tell us something.
>
> If we're meeting face-to-face again soon, we should thrash something
> out then. Does anyone else think this is this urgent?
This, and getting the entire Starlink Classic into CVS are the most
vital things we could do to increase the mindshare/use of our software.
> * Work on some practical RDF application.
Not knocking this, but what sort of thing? It would be interesting to see
RDF used for something _practical_ for once, I'm holding out alot of hope
for the semantic web, but nothing ever seem to come of it...?
Al.
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