Team Eiffel

Paolo "Tybor" Redaelli has applied to the Gna! Project for them to host his project to build a collection of wrapper libraries for SmartEiffel, released under the LGPL.

Paolo already has some code to start this project with - he has worked on wrappers for GTK+ 2.x and has partially implemented wrappers for the Gnu Scientific Library and the GnomeVFS filesystem abstraction library.

David Brown plans to add a wrapper for Sqlite3. Cyril Adrian has suggested that Paolo's project should use SmartEiffel's plugin mechanism because "users have less things to manually describe".

Paolo concludes with a couple of quotes that reflect his opinion that working but incomplete code is better than grand plans but nothing working:

one of my favorite mantras is "perfect is the enemy of good" [1] and the idea is that "good enough" is actually a lot more flexible than some idealized perfection -- Linus Torvalds

Had the first versions of other imperfect specifications such as TCP/IP waited ten years for those in disagreement to work out their differences, the Web might still be hiding somewhere in the back of inventor Tim Berners-Lee's mind -- David Berlind