On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:52:55 -0500 znmeb@cesmail.net wrote:
| Well ... someone's gotta step in and say "No!", so I will. I've just
| witnessed and participated in a semi-debate on the value of devoting
| effort to Gentoo/CygWin. If Gentoo/CygWin isn't worth the effort to
| maintain, why on Earth are the developers wasting time on maintaining
| a package that does absolutely nothing but *syntax coloring* in a
| *single* editor for a language with a questionable name that is an
| 8-instruction Turing complete environment limited to a 30 kilobyte
| address space?

Replying to this email is taking me more time than it took to build that
package and get it working correctly. All things considered, I doubt
that this one's going to be high maintenance, since the syntax file is
complete already.

| Does Gentoo support the free APL derivative A Plus? How's that Axiom
| package coming along? How about ebuilds for Common Lisp Music and
| Common Music Notation? The x86-64 arch work -- that's all done, right?
| The GLSA integration with Portage?

Tell you what. Buy me an amd64 box and I'll help out on amd64 arch work.
As for the others, I'm not in the relevant herds and have no interest in
them, so the only way I'd be working on those would be if you paid me to
do so.

| I'm not going to leave Gentoo because it supports vim syntax coloring
| for brainfuck and Fedora and Debian don't. And I'm not going to leave
| Gentoo if Debian supports it and Gentoo doesn't either. I simply think
| that just because something is easy doesn't necessarily mean it should
| be done. In this particular case, rather than ask if anyone
| **objects** to the package, let me ask "Is there a *compelling* reason
| why it **should** be in the Portage tree?" --

Yes. There're at least four Gentoo users *that I know personally* who
will be using this. So far as I know, I've never met anyone who uses
clisp on Gentoo.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm