On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 +0000 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, the | > specification is worthless and will contain huge numbers of errors. | | Seriously? Without an implementation, your spec of what should happen | will have loads of errors?
Yes. It will describe what people think is allowed, rather than what really is. Perfect example -- we'd never have caught the multiple sourcing issue without an independent implementation. | Clearly you are more concerned about getting Paludis ready. spb has | other priorities, fair enough, but this is something that seems | fairly important for gentoo as a whole. Only if you consider replacing Portage to be important for Gentoo as a whole. Which I do, but one also has to have something with which to do the replacing... | In process terms, I can't understand why the team working on it isn't | a pkgcore dev (eg marienz if you can't communicate with ferringb) Because a) they haven't asked, b) they're more interested in replacing the ebuild format and c) every other time they've gotten involved they've been highly unhelpful. | a portage dev such as zmedico We have a Portage dev reviewing it. | and say antarus from treecleaners. What on earth do tree cleaners have to do with it? | I'd add in someone like jakub Are you insane? What on earth could Jakub possibly contribute? If you want a rough indication of Jakub's level of ebuild understanding, take a look at bug 160328. | or spanky from bug wranglers Why? What on earth do bug wranglers have to do with a package manager specification? If Mike wants to contribute he's more than welcome to, but it wouldn't be in a bug wrangling role... | and Gianelloni for the infrastructure. And what on earth do infrastructure have to do with a package manager specification? Somehow I don't think you have the slightest clue what the scope of the document is... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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