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From: | Jacob Gorm Hansen |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: community spirit |
Date: | Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:06:24 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040926) |
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Yes, but all these choices are irrelevant if you simply write a wrapper around tla as it stands now. There's really no need for a code fork to deal with these aspects. I mean, sure pika-escaping may be annoying, but if you write a wrapper, you can easily convert them (that's kind of the point after all).
I don't think having n wrappers in people's favorite scripting languages makes much sense. I would like one binary that I can easily install on any kind of system, without being root, and without having to install tons* of library-files as well.
I also think the use of wrappers will fragment the community, it is already quite common to have a newbie user ask something like:
Q: How do I achieve X, where X is something utterly trivial in other rc-tools (like extract a standard patch)?
A: Use "fancywrapper foo"!-- which is useless unless one chooses to install fancywrapper, with it's 1000+ files of dependencies.
I love Arch, but I think it should optimize more for the common case. I am running Ubuntu here, and I think it kicks. If Canonical have decided that they want to contribute to Arch, thats simply great news. If Arch is supposed to be a 'community' project, I think it is perfectly fair to announce their involvement to the entire community at once, rather than to a select few behind the scenes.
Jacob *) For instance, on my workstation: cd /usr/lib/python2.3 find -type f | wc -l yields 1312 files.
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