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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:52:55 -0500 znmeb@×××××××.net wrote: |
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| Well ... someone's gotta step in and say "No!", so I will. I've just |
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| witnessed and participated in a semi-debate on the value of devoting |
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| effort to Gentoo/CygWin. If Gentoo/CygWin isn't worth the effort to |
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| maintain, why on Earth are the developers wasting time on maintaining |
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| a package that does absolutely nothing but *syntax coloring* in a |
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| *single* editor for a language with a questionable name that is an |
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| 8-instruction Turing complete environment limited to a 30 kilobyte |
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| address space? |
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Replying to this email is taking me more time than it took to build that |
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package and get it working correctly. All things considered, I doubt |
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that this one's going to be high maintenance, since the syntax file is |
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complete already. |
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| Does Gentoo support the free APL derivative A Plus? How's that Axiom |
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| package coming along? How about ebuilds for Common Lisp Music and |
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| Common Music Notation? The x86-64 arch work -- that's all done, right? |
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| The GLSA integration with Portage? |
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Tell you what. Buy me an amd64 box and I'll help out on amd64 arch work. |
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As for the others, I'm not in the relevant herds and have no interest in |
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them, so the only way I'd be working on those would be if you paid me to |
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do so. |
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| I'm not going to leave Gentoo because it supports vim syntax coloring |
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| for brainfuck and Fedora and Debian don't. And I'm not going to leave |
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| Gentoo if Debian supports it and Gentoo doesn't either. I simply think |
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| that just because something is easy doesn't necessarily mean it should |
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| be done. In this particular case, rather than ask if anyone |
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| **objects** to the package, let me ask "Is there a *compelling* reason |
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| why it **should** be in the Portage tree?" -- |
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Yes. There're at least four Gentoo users *that I know personally* who |
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will be using this. So far as I know, I've never met anyone who uses |
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clisp on Gentoo. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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