[hobbit] Comments wanted - OK to drop BB support in Hobbit ?

[U.Kirbach at EnBW.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:21 PM
> Subject: [hobbit] Comments wanted - OK to drop BB support in Hobbit ?
> 
> I would like to drop that, since it does make things more difficult
> for future developments, and I honestly haven't done any testing
> against BB for some months now. Right now the development focus for
> Hobbit is the "behind-the-scenes" server functions, but should the
> focus at some point go towards new features in the user-interface part
> of Hobbit, it would be difficult to stay backwards compatible with Big
> Brother in the sense that you can run e.g. the Hobbit version of bbgen
> on top of Big Brother.
> 
> So what do you say - can I drop the BB support and focus entirely on
> a pure Hobbit environment?

Since there is no development effort on BB since a  very long time,
and because of the license problem (BB = BTF and Hobbit = GPL),
i would suggest to drop BB support and focus on pure Hobbit.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Uwe Kirbach

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