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Open source pros and cons

by svante@axantum.com 2006-01-02 15:12

Started going through lots of old feature requests on SourceForge, incorporating them into the feature list of the next version. It seems I won't have any trouble keeping busy this year either! There are so many nice things to implement - if I get around to 50% of the features and ambition, AxCrypt2Go will be a very nifty and useful little utility!

In the background I'm also thinking about whether the *nix gettext library really is the right way to go. First of all I have not managed to convince the maintainer that programming defensively against memory leaks is a good thing - so it leaks (or rather permanently allocates and does not free on exit), messing up my chances to make a proper program without investing time and material into tools and stuff. I can see why C/C++ programs traditionally have such problems with leaks with that view. It's really frustrating, as I do not want to keep a custom version of code in my code base. Did that once with zlib - been there, done that. Not again. Also, I'll have to delve deeper into gettext to figure out a way to place language packs in smarter location than ..../se/LC_MESSAGES/AxCrypt2Go.so . Haven't really tried either - anybody out there who just knows? Send me a mail.

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