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... -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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