I've just received a nice e-mail pointing at an even nicer blog post about one of my pet project:
Yapsy and the author states it quite clearly: "Yapsy is awesome"!
Many thanks to Roberto Alsina
for these kind words and for the very nice tutorial he wrote about yapsy.
To be honest, Yapsy is above all just an absurdly tiny piece of code, and , even with that, still has a long way to go before I dare qualify it as awesome, but one thing is sure the developpers who use it already are undoubtedly the awesome ones !
Yapsy is a project I started 3 years ago on my free time, and put on SourceForge "just in case" it could be helpful... It went dormant several times but was waken up by requests and suggestions sent by developpers like
Peppy's Rob McMullen,
MysteryMachine's Roger Gammans and now
Aranduka's Roberto Alsina who all deserve a big thank you.
In its latest release (5 days ago) I corrected some bugs and tried to make the documentation as useful as possible. All in all, I wanted to highlight the ways in wich yapsy could be used to simplify the development of a plugin manager, but Roberto beat me to this. I'm especially proud of two of his comments:
- "One of the great things about Yapsy is that it doesn't specify too much."
- "it helps you write better code."
The first one was clearly indented but also known to be hard to get right (and IMHO yapsy's not quite there yet).
The second is way beyond yapsy's initial scope, but it's really sweet to read, especially from somebody who -- as it seems -- has already tasted Qt development ((Qt is well known among GUI toolkits for helping you write better code so that compliments from Qt developpers are worth twice as much :) ))
More info about
Yapsy at ohloh
