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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wmrowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> CoApp seeks to be one very specific way to do it.  If it happens to work for the
>> upstream project, wonderful :)  If not, it's open source, and when it's broke we
>> get to glue both pieces together.
>
> That's what I would like to avoid as much as I can. At least for two things:
>
> - naming convention (static vs dynamic .lib for example)
> - standard binary packages
>
> If it fails for these two, then right, CoApp will be just another
> project that brings nothing to upstream developers. And I really hope
> that won't be the case :)
>
> Except indeed if the CoApp goal is to be a distribution-like system.
> But then I would not have much interest to participate.

Why not?