On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Gav... wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Derick Rethans wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Jerome Renard wrote:
> >
> > > I started to create an Ant based version of the Makefile available in
> > > website/
> > >
> > > The problem with the Makefile is that it does not work at all on Mac
> > > Os X and is kind of hard to read.
> >
> > I am afraid that nobody else uses Ant here, so I would oppose that.
>
> Have you asked every user of Zetacomponents whether or not they use
> Ant? Where are the emails and replies for that?
This is not a user thing; it's something to maintain the website of this
project. So this is irrelevant.
> This is an open source project in an open source world housed at an
> open source organisation. You cannot oppose volunteers scratching
> their own itch. If jerome wants to provide an Ant alternative I do not
> see the harm.
I do. If you move away from something that we call can maintain, so
something that less people can maintain, I think that's the wrong
direction.
> If Jerome then wants to replace Make with Ant then that is another
> matter but still something that 'you' personally cannot oppose, that
> is a decision for the Podling PMC or the Incubator PMC, no one person
> has power here and the sooner folks realise this the sooner you might
> start attracting those> new committers your board report said you
> needed.
Of course I can oppose to replacing Make with Ant. It simple means I am
stating that I am against it:
op·pose
/əˈpoʊz/ Show Spelled [uh-pohz] verb, -posed, -pos·ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
And new committers we need for code, that's for sure.
cheers,
Derick
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