On 25 Apr 2010, at 19:55, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Unfortunately - that means noisy discussion and collaboration amongst
people from a variety perspectives and skillsets/experience. Which is
anathema to 9fans lone-ranger aesthetics.
I don't really understand this part. Why does porting something or
even
building an alternative distribution require discussion and
collaboration?
*nods* "Discussion" and "collaboration" are required for the infinite-
number-of-monkeys approach. That's a little sharp, perhaps, but just
from watching the results of many-people, open-discussion kind of
approach I have lost all faith in it. "Too many cooks spoil the broth"
is not a new adage, and is quite as applicable to software as it was
to was to anything in the past.
I am seriously considering a fork of sorts, if what I'd like to build
won't work with Plan 9 directly, but I want to have my goals very
clear before I invite any opinion at all.
--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
