Alexander E. Patrakov([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:03:34PM +0500: > Ag Hatzim wrote: > > >Sorry if i am not qualified to contribute to the discussion. > > > >But I wrote it once. > >Why We don't use a *permanent* experimental branch? > >Make there the early development (alphabetical,udev,unicode etc...),bring > >the adopted changes to the > >dev-branch,freeze/test it,release it. > > > >The release circle will be sorted,i believe. > > > > > The problem is that I no longer want UTF-8 in trunk. At all. This is a > feature that should always exist in a separate book, without a chance to > be merged. Like HLFS. This is not a fixable "early development, > technical issues need to be sorted" problem. This is unfixable > "political issue, some people don't want the associated bloat". > > So this is not a good candidate for a branch that contains experiments > that are expected to end up in the main book. >
Alexander don't take it personal,honestly I admire your work as everyone in LFS community I believe. But if we end up like this,soon or later there will one book for every developer :). Now,and regarding Chris (possible valid) concerns,can you tell us exactly how extra space will take a UTF-8 enabled book,and the extra amount of memory Ncurses will need? Have you that info please? Regards. Ag. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
