On Saturday 25 March 2006 16:08, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> I don't think it's 
> acceptable to base our decisions on platforms nearly no one is using.
I'll try to avoid a flame reminding when Linux was really used only by a few 
geeks...
And I'm trying to avoid saying this, but the day was sucky and I don't feel 
like limiting myself this time.

This is the same line of thinking that makes people use flash or wmv "because 
it's the silly Linux users that has to adapt, Windows works fine" and 
similar.
So this is really a paradox for a project that should involve Free/Libre 
software.

But that's another thing/

> Thisis meant as a general remark, not especially regarding a distributed
> vcs.
In this particular case I'm asking for a solution that can accomodate more 
than just us. I'm positive that there are solutions as good as darcs that 
does not require Haskell, but of course if there's a killer requirement that 
makes darcs the only solution we'll work on make it available.

Of course doing like people using Flash to write a website that could have 
been built using plain HTML and animated GIF images, and using darcs only 
because it was the first idea while there are good alternatives that works 
for more people would be something that will a) piss me off quite a bit 
because of the paradox said above b) make the whole project laughtable by 
other Free Software projects finding the above analogy...

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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
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