From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fed1rmmtao07.cox.net (fed1rmmtao07.cox.net [68.230.241.32]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j216JWuf031643 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 06:19:33 GMT Received: from eagle.creatures ([68.98.17.33]) by fed1rmmtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050301061921.HUSN13104.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@eagle.creatures>; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:19:21 -0500 Received: from [192.168.99.11] (cheetah.creatures [192.168.99.11]) by eagle.creatures (Postfix) with ESMTP id 921A927079; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:45:25 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <42240A6B.7080107@cox.net> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:23:39 -0700 From: "D. Wokan" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) 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@gentoo.org Cc: 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 947e11da-b9ea-4e53-80e3-9d22895b6fc1 X-Archives-Hash: 2d8148a1721b8222cbc647225b734207 znmeb@cesmail.net wrote: >Quoting Krzysiek Pawlik : > > > >>purslow@sympatico.ca wrote: >> >> >>>>Visit it's site: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/ >>>>- You'll know why 'parodical'. >>>> >>>> >>>not really: it looks like something which might have real uses. >>> >>> >>Hm... harder than perl, uglier than perl - nope. I think I'll stay with >>C/C++ and Python :) >> >> >> >>>it's a pity its inventor gave it such an ugly name, >>>but some people are like that ... (smile). >>> >>> >>If someone doesn't like it's name - use acronym - bf >> >> >> >>>since the name is well-established, no objection here to adding it to >>> >>> >>Gentoo. >> >>I'm not a dev, but I don't have any objections too. >> >> > >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? > >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? > >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?" >-- >gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > Because there's someone who seems willing to create and maintain it. Apparently nobody has enough interest in those other packages to do so. Why don't you hire someone to do it for you since it sounds like you aren't really wanting to do so either. Maybe they'll give you a break on rates if you let them submit it to Gentoo with their names on it (even though the ebuilds would be works for hire). -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list