Subject: Re: Shared software development


  Thanks for the updates, Niels and Stefan!

  We should also consider moving some shared functions into
a common software component, which could be called, e.g.,
jemx_lib. While this adds some overhead to set up and use
this component, it would help in my view by

- enforcing some discipline and regular exchange in the 
  development of these important functions;

- simplifying at some point the maintenance of tools,
  in the easiest case one would just recompile to have
  the better treatment of a given problem handled.

Note that one would never be forced to use these common
functions, so if one needs extra functionality one could
work one a separate copy, but evidently that is contrary
to the goal of having many tools use the same basic blocks
- a difficult balance.

  Cheers,
  Peter