Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:01:58AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > James was directly involved in getting the current form to happen; > > the need for change was a shock to the rest of us, not James or Joey. > Okay "shock" may be the wrong word, but for sure he thinks the current > process is w

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I completely disagree that the personal preference of a programming > language should dictate the technical means we should choose. I'm > really happy that James does not prefer say PL/I and we would be forced > to clone an existing

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-19 Thread Matthew Johnson
Antony Towns wrote: > You've seen my comments on this, and presumably my references to mails > about James views (both my explanation [0] and his [1]). Doesn't that already > show that there're others besides James who judge similarly, and that > James has shared his knowledge? If there are others

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:22:35PM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:01:58AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > James was directly involved in getting the current form to happen; > > > the need for change was a shock to the rest of us, not James or Joey. > > Okay "shock" m