-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 20:02, William Pitcock wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:47 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: [snip] >> Even there, it looks very much like other "very small" webservers, >> such as boa, bozohttpd, cherokee, fnord, lighttpd, micro-httpd, >> mini-httpd or thttpd. What does it do better than any of them? Or >> worse? Or different? > > Why does a package need to clarify what's different about it than others > like it? Debian is about having the possibility of choosing between many > options for the same thing e.g. openssh, dropbear for sshd, 12 different > httpd options, etc.
Because when the long descriptions of many different "competing" packages all say essentially the same thing, then those descriptions are meaningless. > Package descriptions should stick to positive aspects of the package, > and not try to draw comparisons towards other packages. IMO. That's fine. But when it's something as relatively simple as a small httpd, you need to spell out specifics as to why I should use monkey instead of cherokee, boa, thttpd, fnord, etc. The micro-httpd description is a good example. > It seems to me as if you are trying to get people to justify the > packages they want to work on. If that is the case, then, I think > "because the person wants to use _this_ package" is fine. Infact, I > would go as far as saying that the wide latitude of software options for > a specific task is one of the greatest strengths of Debian. It's not "why should you *package* this s/w", it's "convince me that I should *use* this package". > As such, I think the revised description is perfectly acceptable for > Debian. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHx2uvS9HxQb37XmcRAr1AAJ4nDwIq9qtaFcqcFtaBV8yHC2SobQCeMkV3 8QEs/+nTqEO7w7vs3mvH4IU= =h3uZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
