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Originally Posted by JScones
Anyway, I'm just thinking on the fly here...it's 2am...sleepy-bye time.  |
My eyes started to bleed after the first paragraph ..
At least I understand that you are talking about a tool that inserts mod data into ShIII file structures, intelligently resolving conflicts and merging stuff as far as possible. That would make a lot of people happy, especially if you released it as a dll that others can link to.
I think this also might be more realistic than the community / opensource approach, from my experience. Reason is there are too many languages around, Sh3Gen is C#, Sh3Cmdr is Delphi, ref does C++ (I think), I also remember having seen Python, Pearl, VB6 and so on. In fact the only major languages I haven't heard of in a ShIII project is Java and VB.NET,
So far I see no one who would organize such a great project. I could contribute with some good classes for a number of filetypes, but I make use of an extensive classlibrary thats in C#, so no way I am going to port it to another language.
Moreover, much more than I dislike releasing tools is releasing code, because you usually end up with answering a lot of beginners questions, while the pros don't need your code anyway.
But as I said, if someone would start an opensource project, I would try to contribute, and help. Also don't forget that ShIV will be there one day, and we might be better prepared next time.
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Originally Posted by ref
The hard part wil be putting away personal pride and varoius jelousy issues
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It's generally good to see that there are a lot of experienced programmers around here, and I have not experienced any of these issues among them.