RE: RPG 'CPAN' site

Hans,

I have the same feeling about this... while we all would like to see a
community like it exists for Linux, C, ... we won't get it by just dumping
sources to the outside world.  The reason is that most of us don't have an
environment (and if they do, it is at the office where they don't have the
time) to play with it, nor to develop it on.

In my opinion, it is not the amount of available source that is driving the
popularity, but rather the access to a machine to play with during your free
time.  This is still the biggest problem (I don't see much people sharing
code that has been written during office hours).

If IBM would make it possible to run OS/400 on an Intel platform... we would
have a completely different picture !

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: 01 March, 2002 14:40
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: RPG 'CPAN' site

...snip....

BTW, for me personally, I have neither the time nor desire to
get deeply involved with this kind of thing.  For years, I've
tried to encourage more open-source efforts among the RPG
community, but whatever happens has to be organized and
managed by the RPG community, in my opinion.  And to be
brutally honest, I'm still not entirely convinced that open
source software can make much of an impact in this community.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com