Fair enough.
- Chris
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Brad Chamberlain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This might also allow Chapel
>> to stop shipping so much 3rd party software along with it.
>>
>
> This too I view as a strength of the current system rather than a
> weakness. There's nothing I like less when trying a new technology than
> being required to download and install a bunch of dependent packages in
> order to use it -- it's enough of a barrier to cause me to never get around
> to kicking the tires at all. I also expect there'd be a sharp uptick in
> our user support effort if we had to help people navigate the installation
> and proper version selection of various third-party packages. By shipping
> these packages with Chapel, we save the novice user the hurdle and provide
> "blessed" versions of the packages that Chapel relies upon. The tarball is
> bigger, sure, but disks and networks are cheap compared to developer time.
>
>
> -Brad
>
>
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