Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Group Proposal)

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 12:14:45AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> > I know I would not be allowed to use GPL-only thing for day job - we cannot 
> > give a customer a chip-design system written in gpled-perl6 if that requires
> > us to give customer source and allows customer to give system to a compeditor.
> > 
> > So not 'political' but 'commercial'.
> 
> Fair enough, but I'm talking about LGPLed libraries which are not viral.

Right, but we then either:

1) Need to live with the performance and (lack of) side-effects tradeoffs
the library designer made

or

2) Need to snag the code and beat it into submission ourselves.

#1 has potential performance issues (and we're in a very
performance-critical segment of the world here) as well as potential
portability issues (libunicode available on the palm?). #2 has licensing
issues.

Once again, I'm not saying we *shouldn't* use libraries, just that we
should be very careful in doing so.

					Dan