[Omake] "lib/contrib" area?

[Aleksey Nogin]

I was reflecting on the fact that we are constantly very slow to respond 
to people's ideas on various add-on and alternative ways to build things 
(e.g Automake.om and the alternative C build system with more support 
for toolchain selection).

Perhaps the way to address this would be to create a lib/contrib area 
where we could put other people's ideas even if we do not (yet) have 
time/energy to fully review them and decide whether we want to make 
their suggestion a default one? In we want, we could even give people 
commit access so that they could maintain their contributions themselves.

If we do that, we should add a "syntax/compilation checking only, do not 
run" command-line option to omake/osh so that the default self-build can 
verify these contributed files without having to actually execute them 
(this is so that we can maintain these files through the OMake syntax 
changes that we are about to start doing).

What do you think?

Aleksey

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Aleksey Nogin, Research Scientist
Advanced Technologies Department, Information & System Sciences Lab
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA