From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1RF8GEg024576 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:08:17 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.42) id 1D5Q1m-0001x4-88 for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:08:15 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5Q1M-0001Yv-On for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:07:48 +0000 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:07:43 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude? Message-ID: <20050227150743.0cbaa874@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050227095255.6racs8ogs0084wsk@webmail.spamcop.net> References: <20050226204457.0bfad52d@snowdrop> <20050227091757.GA7521@sympatico.ca> <20050227102844.054405c5@beech.glades.net> <20050227094039.GC7521@sympatico.ca> <4221979F.3040102@people.pl> <20050227135412.GF7521@sympatico.ca> <4221D590.50008@people.pl> <20050227095255.6racs8ogs0084wsk@webmail.spamcop.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Sun__27_Feb_2005_15_07_43_+0000_19_4dIcN5V1JqNss; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: efa41c30-ee13-418d-8c8c-5928abaee15d X-Archives-Hash: 60911188f500e2a240d4631949511bcd --Signature_Sun__27_Feb_2005_15_07_43_+0000_19_4dIcN5V1JqNss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Sun__27_Feb_2005_15_07_43_+0000_19_4dIcN5V1JqNss Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCIeJC96zL6DUtXhERAuz0AJ42f44RPskCKjHOm3N63C3ytz18EgCfTUBh 3SGx2ajAJk6ka9Tdmn9dPUo= =J9Kp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sun__27_Feb_2005_15_07_43_+0000_19_4dIcN5V1JqNss-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list