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On Saturday 25 March 2006 19:50, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> This is the same line of thinking that makes people use flash or wmv |
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> "because it's the silly Linux users that has to adapt, Windows works fine" |
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> and similar. |
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It's not. Darcs is not proprietary, so you can make it work if you want/need |
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it. And it's up to those who use a specific platform to make it flourish, but |
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holding us back to use something because of some specific platform having not |
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enough developers/users/steam to follow would be entirely stupid. |
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> > Thisis meant as a general remark, not especially regarding a distributed |
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> > vcs. |
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> In this particular case I'm asking for a solution that can accomodate more |
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> than just us. I'm positive that there are solutions as good as darcs that |
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> does not require Haskell, but of course if there's a killer requirement |
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> that makes darcs the only solution we'll work on make it available. |
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Once again, I did not say anything in favor of any vcs. |
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> Of course doing like people using Flash to write a website that could have |
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> been built using plain HTML and animated GIF images, and using darcs only |
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> because it was the first idea while there are good alternatives that works |
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> for more people would be something that will a) piss me off quite a bit |
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> because of the paradox said above b) make the whole project laughtable by |
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> other Free Software projects finding the above analogy... |
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The comparison to proprietary software is completely out of line. |
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Carsten |
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