"Thomas Bartkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Re-train on a new platform, >> > and re-write from scratch? > > What do you do when an open source project you were using gets abandoned?
cvs import -m "sources for orphaned project" <myprojectname> <productname> <initial> > Hard to see much difference here. Doing support for object-only distributions is *much* harder than doing it for source distributions. I have a habit of picking products based on technical superiority, not popularity. As a result, I have a nice collection of orphans. That's because technical quality has little or nothing to do with profitability. On the other hand, since starting to use open source projects, I've never had one I depend on fail. I've had some I contributed to fail, but that's a different thing. I suspect that technical quality in open source projects contributes to their attracting people to support them. This makes them ever so much more attractive than proprietary solutions, where technical quality seems to be irrelevant to longevity. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list