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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:29:12 -0700 |
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Chip Parker <infowolfe@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> If you were building a house, and the blueprints had been signed off |
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> on calling for 1 meter high doors, but the builder had built in 2 |
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> meter high doors, would you then go back to the builder and require |
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> him to do something that makes those doors unusable for the vast |
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> majority of people entering the house? |
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Package managers can implement whatever extra bells and whistles they like, |
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but they still have to follow the spec. Your metaphor is flawed in that |
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you're talking about a single house here. If it doesn't match the plan you |
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do an as-built and file a deviation with the registrar. The situation here |
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is more like if you build a hundred houses to code, and then one above code, |
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and then change code to match the one house and bulldoze the rest for not |
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meeting minimal requirements. You're punishing anyone who implements a |
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package manager to spec if you keep changing the spec in incompatible ways. |
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fonts, Character is what you are in the dark. |
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