I just reread a good old article, “The Selfish Class”,
by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder.
article link:
http://www.joeyoder.com/papers/patterns/Selfish/selfish.html
Its a design pattern inspired by darwinism. There are comparisons
between how nature gains success and survives. In fact with
simple means my own packages can be improved a lot.
I believe others may find lots of inspiration too.
I have been browsing many projects at rubyforge… there are
lots of violations of the selfish class:
- only few projects has a homepage.
- few distributes both zip, tgz, gem.
Looking at RAA, I find entries which are no longer uptodate,
which has unclear project description… etc.
It would help everybody if project owners read this article.
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Simon Strandgaard