When simplicity backfires

I put a lot of effort into refactoring a larger, more complicated library into the lean and simple Squiggle you see today.

Annoyingly...

Freshmeat tries to avoid listing projects which fall below a certain level of size and/or complexity, and yours is unfortunately a bit too simple for our application index. Your contribution has been respectfully declined.

Comments

Derek Kaczmarczyk

That's ridiculous, Joe.
Nice job on the library.

Ilja Preuß

That's really silly! Do the people at Freshmeat really think that size equals value? Or are they simply lazy? I'm puzzled...

Bungle

I agree with Aivars. Squiggle is useless.

I think freshmeat have some brain too. I no like squiggle. I wish i was Hanni because nobody read my blog and everybody read his blog.

Kristopher Schmidt

Squiggle-like functionality is not useless. I wrote a library that does almost the same thing; add some database metadata and a quick gui and you can get point-and-click arbitrary queries. Our clients love it, it's that or a $10,000 report tool...

Trejkaz Xaoza

Damn you, I was thinking we needed something like that in my last job, and nobody wanted to write it.

Trejkaz Xaoza

Okay I just thought for about 10 seconds. Here's the irony.

My project, PHP-Mesh, is 14,827 bytes.
Your project, Squiggle, is 28,915 bytes.

Mine was accepted onto Freshmeat, and is arguably less useful than yours.

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