From: Karel Gardas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Tom Lord wrote:
> `ArX' is a fork of Arch that started back when `larch' was still > the only viable implementation. Walter Landry was an early > pioneer in the field of distrusting my leadership to the point of > branching: >From my point of view as a user of Arch from these days, I don't think `distrust' is the best word here. Please do not forget that it was Walter who started maintaining larch when you burn out. I think we thank him for several larch pre releases. Also we thank him to provoke you so much that you recover and jump to Arch development sooner than later. Imagine that it also might have some impact on Arch future... You can just imagine the stress I was under at the time -- none of the busking stuff was bs, I assure you. It was understatement. That's my primary explanation. I think I did pretty well to draw more or less the hardline I did around arch in the first few years -- pissing people off badly was inevitable. In some sense I'm very lucky that someone as talented and driven as wlandry was one of the highlights of my pissing-people-off career (hopefully mostly behind me now :-). The point being: I didn't mean to omit any detail in my accounting of wlandry's many virtues. > he set out to reimplement `larch' in /C++/ and by all > reports has done quite well. Of slight concern, perhaps, is that > `ArX' has fallen out of compatability, as far as I know, with `tla' > and `baz'. It might be helpful, incidentally, for the greater > Arch community to help repair any residual personality rift between > Landry and I, at least enough to repair bidirectional compatability > between all branches. That would be just great! Karel -- Karel Gardas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ObjectSecurity Ltd. http://www.objectsecurity.com _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
