[m-dev.] for review: developer introduction for webpage

[Tyson Dowd]

On 16-Jan-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 16-Jan-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > I'm happy to mention that it is dangerous, but I'm not sure about
> > deleting it.  If I delete the section people still aren't going to 
> > know about the interdependencies, and they also won't know about this
> > potentially useful thing.
> > 
> > (if you don't agree, see last paragraph)
> 
> My point is that the technique you describe is *not* useful for people
> who don't know the dependencies.

Fine, it's deleted.

> > I was thinking that this document is intended for a wider audience of
> > people who might not be interested in submitting to the project.
> > With that audience I didn't want the document to sound like a lot of
> > "thou must" statements -- I was going to let them make up their own
> > minds about their software development practices.
> 
> You are right, we shouldn't talk about about "must", but "may" is too weak.
> If someone extends Mercury and writes a paper about the extension, I would
> strongly prefer that the extension pass bootcheck and the test case (because
> otherwise the paper is suspect) even if they don't check the extension back in.
> 
> We should therefore use "should".

Done.

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       Tyson Dowd           # 
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