Re: XML idea

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

Hi,

the old story again and again...:-)

On Jan 7, 2004, at 2:40 AM, Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> Helge Hess wrote:
> > Hm, so gstep-base doesn't have the goal to be as compatible with 
> > MacOSX
> > Cocoa as possible?
>
> Not as an at-all-costs, bug-for-bug compatible goal. It's kindof a
> partial 'goal', subject to other 'goals'. _I_ would say "We should take
> the Good Stuff from Cocoa, and leave the rest."; YMMV.
>
> > Hm, too bad, makes it uninteresting for a large group of people :-|
>
> Well, they are free to send patches that implement all this stuff. The
> patches may or may not be accepted; if not, they can work on something
> like PortabilityKit, or even fork.

So who decides on what basis what is worth being part of gstep-base and 
what not? I apologise if I get you wrong, but this "may or may not, 
else fork" attitude sounds really weird to me...

Just my $0.02...

-Phil
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