Re: Known MacOS programmer about WO/EOF

[Dennis Leeuw]

David Ayers wrote:
> Armando Di Cianno wrote:
>
> > Take for example gsweb.  Almost 100% undocumented, never been
> > "released" (come on -- it's at least 0.3, no?) and yet, if you try it
> > out, it's extremely cool.  So what on earth do we tell
> > end-user/developers?  "You know...try it out...and if you happen to
> > have developed for WO about 5 years ago, it's almost feasible to
> > use...otherwise...well...you'll figure it out....".  Pretty much, not
> > cool.

> What we need is developers that already know how EOF/WebObjects and can 
> spend time working on it.  There are a few that are trying to get into 
> it.  But they often lack the experience and resources (reference 
> implementations) to really get the correct implementation.  I'm sad to 
> say, that I simply don't always have the time or even the know-how to 
> help them out, even though I try when I can.  Another problem I see, is 
> that some of the work to squeeze out more efficiency has made the code 
> much harder to read, making it even harder for new folks to help out. 
> I'm still hoping to find a way to remedy that, but to do that I'll need 
> to find some time to do some real benchmarking myself to make sure we 
> don't loose measurable performance.

On the otherhand releasing let's say a 0.1 version might create 
attention which then might attracked more developers. I don't think any 
developer expects a 0.1 version to be a version to base a production 
application upon.

Just 2 cents.

Dennis