[En-Nut-Discussion] RFC: Some kind of library for often needed functions

[Ole Reinhardt]

Hi,

> What about "contrib" as the directory or repository name?

Sounds reasonable for me.

> Does it really make sense to include such code in the standard Nut/OS
> distro? What about setting up an additional separate code repository for
> these contributed packages?

Ok, problem is, that some of the internal NutOS code might also need to
use these functions. Base64 decoding for example. So I would vote to add
this code to the normal directory structure.

> If the repository is separate, the requirements of contributed code could be
> less stringent. For example it wouldn't have to compile for all compiler
> versions or architectures. It also wouldn't need to be maintained to make
> sure it compiles with future versions of Nut/OS.

If we just start to implement such a library It's a good idea to also
maintain it further. Otherwise we'll end up with lots of dead code.

Bye,

Ole

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