Uucp@resq.fidonet.org (Uucp) (03/26/91)
From uunet!osf.org!motif-talk-request From: uunet!lta.com!david (David B. Lewis) To: motif-talk@lta.com Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 10:40:51 EST Benjamin> I assume that you're subclassing Motif widgets. In this Benjamin> case there are some shortcuts involving the Benjamin> as-yet-undocumented synthetic resource mechanism. Isn't this the sort of thing that contractors typically are expected to provide? I realize that OSF has reasons for not yet publishing the internals interfaces, but I would have thought that HP would have provided to OSF documentation on a major piece of functionality as part of the work on 1.1 a year ago, regardless of whether or not it is easy to reconstruct the essentials from the source, assuming the source is correct. Note that I'm not asking for anybody to publish this information; I'm just surprised that it was never put in a form useful to people outside HP. -- Uucp - via FidoNet node 1:269/133 UUCP: uunet!resq!Uucp
Uucp@resq.fidonet.org (Uucp) (03/26/91)
From uunet!osf.org!motif-talk-request From: uunet!hpcvlx.cv.hp.com!ben (Benjamin Ellsworth) To: motif-talk@osf.org Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 13:40:51 pst > Isn't this the sort of thing that contractors typically are expected > to provide? Often documentation of internal mechanisms is not part of contracted work. There are many cases where it makes no sense to place and pay for that expectation. It depends on the contractor, the customer, and their product and their relationship. In general, for a rapidly changing and growing product, it rarely makes sense to invest in detailed interal documentation which is going to be 80% obsolete within a year (it is usually about as expensive to properly document such things as it is to build them). This is especially true when there is a good deal of permanence between the contractor and customer. When the feature set of Motif stabilizes, I expect that such internal documentation will be required. Until then, it only makes sense to document the guts of motif that you don't think will change, and very few of the internal mechanisms passed that filter for 1.1. There is no guarantee that the synthetic resource mechanism won't change in subtle ways for 1.2. Internal stuff is that way. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Ellsworth | ben@cv.hp.com | INTERNET Hewlett-Packard Company | {backbone}!hplabs!hp-pcd!ben | UUCP 1000 N.E. Circle | (USA) (503) 750-4980 | FAX Corvallis, OR 97330 | (USA) (503) 757-2000 | VOICE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- All relevant disclaimers apply. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Uucp - via FidoNet node 1:269/133 UUCP: uunet!resq!Uucp