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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: questions, wishes, bugs
From:       Leon Widdershoven <leon () ipp387 ! ipp ! kfa-juelich ! de>
Date:       1999-07-12 12:08:26
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Bjoern.Kahl wrote:

> 
>  Hallo !
> 
> On 12-Jul-99 Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Frank Baumgart wrote:

> >>    ddd is years ahead of kdbg in about every respect (features, 
> >>    flexibility, stability, usability) without doubt so I can not see
> >>    much sense in creating an inferior debugger from scratch.
> >>    (well if the author has fun doing it...)
> 
> > And that OpenSource developers have fun developling software is one of
> > the most important things!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
>   No one can be forced to develop thing he don't like. But speaking
>   for my self, I start developing something, because I miss some
>   possibilities in my system. And when somebody come along, look at
>   what I am doning, then telling me there is already a solution out
>   somewhere, I happily go ahead and check if it fits my needs or if
>   I can adapt (? make it to fit) it to my needs.
>   Hacking around *is* fun. But hacking something usefull is even more
>   fun to me. It is not really important, if it is *my* thing. It is
>   important that I can *do* something to make live and work easier.

I think it is the formulation of this particular point (creating
an inferior debugger from scratch) which is suboptimal. I think 
we all agree that the importance, and the success  of Open Source Code
is due to the pleasure programmers have creating software.

Leon

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