On Jul 16, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Chet Farmer wrote:
Scott,
You persist in answering questions that I'm not asking. At this
point, I won't give a damn about Typo deployment again until some
time *after* the bug fixes I require are deployed, if then.
Your ongoing insistence that Typo/Ruby IS TOO! easy to set up and
run is, well, tiresome. Please stop.
Unfortunately things change rapidly, things are updated, bug fixes
made. Some Linux distributions run on a 6-month Release Cycle, so
in 6-months they play catchup and update all the things that they
can. They miss somethings, however that's not here nor there. My
knee-jerk solution is if LAMP is so easy to deploy, then why not
use it? or why not use Perl or Python?
Seriously? You're going there? "If (other thing) is so much better,
just USE IT!" Do you not realize how petulant that sounds? Are you
going to take your ball and go home now?
It's not my ball, it's everyone else's ball. I do not suffer the
problem of a 6-month release cycle, or how painful Ruby on Rails is to
deploy. I realize I don't see your pain, so perhaps if you could
actually write up a way we could make this easier for you? Because
clearly I don't get it, and won't get it. So instead of venting your
frustration the way you are, please educate us.
It's unfortunate that MarsEdit was one of your Hanging Chads... I
never got around to buying a License of MarsEdit, I just couldn't
be bothered with it, I would rather write in TextMate and then copy
and paste.
Post-from-local-client is a core requirement for me. Cut and paste
is for the birds. With Blosxom, I wrote in TextMate and saved.
That's it. A cron'd rsync did my posting for me. With proper support
for the XML-PRC stuff, I can do that again with Typo; it works with
WP and MT just fine via anything that supports that interface,
including MarsEdit and TextMate via the blogging bundle.
Sounds like an excellent feature to be proposed for Typo then. The
proper XML-RPC Support so you can post from TextMate.
However one of my long standing issues with Typo has been ... *drum
roll* how I have to insert <br>'s into my posts because I included
a html tag, and somehow it broke the whole mess. So either I can
have badly formatted posts that look worse then my emails ... or I
can force a line break every here and there so make it look cleaner.
There are lots of ways to solve this. I post in Markdown.
I use Textile and I guess that's why I have that problem.
I do admit though that Frédéric responded slow on the Typo 5.0 Beta
(Rails 2) release to my dismay, I lost my typo install twice due to
a cache error, and it took several more people to have the same
problem before it was even brought up. But overall he try's and
that's what counts.
Try that statement at work and see how far you get.
Don't get me wrong; I appreciate Frederic's answers very much --
and, not to put too fine a point on it, his English is better than
yours -- but eventually I'll make a choice based on function and
support, not how hard the maintainers are trying.
Then I will stop bothering now, because it's clear that I am wasting
my time.
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