Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

[Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 25 March 2006 19:50, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> This is the same line of thinking that makes people use flash or wmv
> "because it's the silly Linux users that has to adapt, Windows works fine"
> and similar.

It's not. Darcs is not proprietary, so you can make it work if you want/need 
it. And it's up to those who use a specific platform to make it flourish, but 
holding us back to use something because of some specific platform having not 
enough developers/users/steam to follow would be entirely stupid.

> > Thisis meant as a general remark, not especially regarding a distributed
> > vcs.
>
> In this particular case I'm asking for a solution that can accomodate more
> than just us. I'm positive that there are solutions as good as darcs that
> does not require Haskell, but of course if there's a killer requirement
> that makes darcs the only solution we'll work on make it available.

Once again, I did not say anything in favor of any vcs.

> Of course doing like people using Flash to write a website that could have
> been built using plain HTML and animated GIF images, and using darcs only
> because it was the first idea while there are good alternatives that works
> for more people would be something that will a) piss me off quite a bit
> because of the paradox said above b) make the whole project laughtable by
> other Free Software projects finding the above analogy...

The comparison to proprietary software is completely out of line.


Carsten

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