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* hasufell <hasufell@g.o> [21.08.2013. @16:48:10 +0200]: |
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> On 08/20/2013 05:12 PM, Randy Westlund wrote: |
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> > I've heard several people mention jitsi, but was surprised to find that it's not in the portage tree. |
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> Jitsi is written in java and thus by design buggy, bloated and hard to |
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> maintain. |
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What a categorical opinion! Developers are writing code and are making |
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bugs, whatever the language they use. I am pretty sure I am able to |
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write buggy, bloated and hard to maintain with Haskell, Ada, Java or any |
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other language… |
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It is really easy to criticize the programming language instead of |
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reviewing the development methods. |
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The main problem of writing an ebuild for a Java application comes from |
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bad habits in the Java world: people are usually distributing all |
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libraries and the program in a big ball of mud. It is great for Windows |
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users or for users who do not use a real packages manager, but it needs |
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lot of work to have clean packages. |
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Regards, |
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JC |
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