Re: [Plib-devel] 32 bit integer button limit

[steve <sjb...@ai...>]

Look: the problem with supporting more than 32 buttons is
that only one guy with only one application needs it - the
rest of us can't test the code, we can't maintain the code
we can't verify that it runs under MacOS and five different
flavors of windows and a couple of different Linux drivers
because none of the rest of us have (or are likely to have)
34 button joysticks - nor yet code to use it.

You have to aim projects like this at the 95% line - what
95% of the people need.  The 0.1% of people with 34
button joysticks of whom 0.1% have applications that need
all of those buttons - are just not worth the support grief.

For those very few people running those very few applications,
congratulations - it's OpenSourced - you can make a copy,
stick it into your application code and maintain it yourself.
If there are problems with it - you'll be the one that
answers the mail.

We've had MANY instances of people dumping fancy little
features into our laps then running off and never being
heard from again - it's just not useful to anyone other
than the person that first asked for it - it just adds
to the support load for the remaining few.

Keep it simple.

That's the mantra that got us this library suite in the
first place - and it's what keeps it running with very
little support from very few people.