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 j1RFKxu7028215 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:21:00 GMT Received: from node24.worldweb2000.com ([195.141.101.216] helo=server1.cyon.ch) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D5QE5-0008J5-Sk for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:20:58 +0000 Received: from [217.148.7.65] (helo=[192.168.10.5]) by server1.cyon.ch with esmtpa (Exim 4.44) id 1D5QE5-000582-8b for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:20:57 +0100 Message-ID: <4221E55A.9080302@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:20:58 +0100 From: Simon Stelling Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude? 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> In-Reply-To: <20050227095255.6racs8ogs0084wsk@webmail.spamcop.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server1.cyon.ch X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gentoo.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Archives-Salt: a69032f1-c8b2-489e-ac70-0f7fd79832fb X-Archives-Hash: 32fcc946ddb9a55b8867ccb92e7ce094 Hi, 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? 1. Getting Gentoo/* running and stable is a vast effort compared to maintain such a package. 2. It's fun. > 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? We're not here to give you your dream system, we're here to have fun (at least i hope so). Would you install an IRC server on a notebook and use it to chat in a train where all people are less than 3 meters from each other? It doesn't make any sense at all, but I can tell you, it's fun. 1. You can't force people to do what you want other than you pay them. 2. We're not one big dev-team, everyone has different interests. I'm pretty sure some people won't ever work on e.g. Gentoo/AMD64 simply because they don't have an amd64. > 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?" Of course there is a reason: You can read your bf-programs easier. Greetings, blubb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list