[PYTHON-CRYPTO] Requirements

[PC Drew]

--On Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:45 PM -0500 Rich Salz
<rsalz at CAVEOSYSTEMS.COM> wrote:

>> This really scares me.  The idea of having other people install their
>> code into our module without us knowing it.  What I'd rather do is have
>> people submit their implementation to us and have us integrate it into
>> the overall package.
>
> Unh, either you believe in well-defined interfaces that allow
> independant implementation, or you do not.
>
> Being scared is silly.  Folks *are* going to do their own
> implementations, and they *are not* going to turn over their code to
> someone else to integrate into an official package. The best thing to do
> is accept reality, believe in interfaces, and make sure you provide a
> reasonable for things to work.
>         /r$

I can hope, can't I?? :)  Obviously you're correct, but I'd like to say
that  I'm a proponent of one big package that people contribute to, instead
of people doing their own implementation.  That's just my $0.02


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PC Drew

  Be nice or I'll replace you with a very
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