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On Saturday 25 March 2006 16:08, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> I don't think it's |
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> acceptable to base our decisions on platforms nearly no one is using. |
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I'll try to avoid a flame reminding when Linux was really used only by a few |
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geeks... |
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And I'm trying to avoid saying this, but the day was sucky and I don't feel |
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like limiting myself this time. |
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This is the same line of thinking that makes people use flash or wmv "because |
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it's the silly Linux users that has to adapt, Windows works fine" and |
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similar. |
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So this is really a paradox for a project that should involve Free/Libre |
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software. |
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But that's another thing/ |
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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 that |
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makes darcs the only solution we'll work on make it available. |
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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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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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