Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: taglines vs explicit

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Davide Libenzi <address@hidden>

    > Come on Tom. I've never used BK but I did read a lot of its features (I
    > don't think they advertise bogus things). It's a pretty nice SCM and the
    > fact that its license sucks does not lower its technical value.

No, the fact that it's just SCCS-on-steroids and cost _way_ _way_ too
much to develop for what it does lowers its technical value.   The
fact that a bunch of shell scripts, cranked out in about 90 days and
converted to C in about 90 days, can compete with that crappy
SCCS-on-steroids-blowhard-promoted-"solution" lowers its technical
value.  

There's been a huge amount of bitchiness and whining on this list
lately but the subtext of it is: "hey, this thing solves nearly
everything -- let's just tweak X".

And if you read the bitchiness critically, nearly in all cases, the
experienced users are pointing out "Well, X has already been tweaked
-- you just don't grok it yet."

Sorry, but BK is horribly overrated and rides the coattails mostly of
the social class of LM.

-t