Richard Braun, le Mon 07 Apr 2014 13:58:08 +0200, a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 01:49:52PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > If there is agreement, despite my comment b), that it'd be beneficial to > > merge the current "external" translators into the Hurd core repository's > > master branch, if this substantially makes any workflows easier, then I'm > > fine with accepting this. There is, I guess, no need to make our lives > > harder, for some abstract (?) benefits, just for the elegance of > > explicitly modularized system architecture? > > Grouping translators together along with the Hurd libraries and build > system makes the life of developers a lot easier. It reduces the > overhead related to build system settings, and it also reduces the > likeliness of mistakes. It really is the pragmatic approach, and IMO, > it strongly beats the apparent advantages of separate repositories. > From experience, on this project or others, I've never actually seen > or felt in any way any of these advantages in practice, but I've hit > the issues many times...
Well, Xorg changed his position on this, but perhaps too much indeed :) Samuel
