I just trying to understand why some functionality (widely used) is not included while other (used in very few apps) is included.
Our policy is to only include modules that exists. Why doesn't the modules you want to use exist? Because it isn't as widely used as you think. At least no one has missed it enough during the last almost ten years to bother implement it.
/ Martin Nilsson (har bott i google)
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2003-02-26 23:47: Subject: Re: 64 bit ints
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:27:30PM +0100, Martin Baehr wrote:
Parser is used in roxen and caudium, it would be hard to see them as just a minority of pike users.
roxen & caudim are just applications but not Pike itself. Many people who use them don't even know Pike (and don't need to).
I am talking about users who program in Pike, not ordinary users who use apps written in Pike.
and besides, none of this stuff will actually be loaded if you don't use it. can't you just ignore it? it won't hurt your performance. what is your complaint?
Distribution size, mainly :) But that's not my complaint, I just trying to understand why some functionality (widely used) is not included while other (used in very few apps) is included.
should people stop working on these things to concentrate on core functionality that is usefull for everybody?
Sure. Otherwise Pike will never be widely used.
even if only a minority actually uses these things, i am sure the majority likes the stuff to be there in case they should need it.
So why there is no unsigned ints in Pike? :)
Regards, /Al
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