On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:12:32PM -0800, Thomas Lord wrote:
>  > 'make clean && tla commit && make' 
> 
>  > Can take a very long time (hours) for something like x.org or OOo.
> 
> Isn't that something to beef to x.org and OOo about?  How does their
> first-year-student-fundamentals bogosity warp into a design requirement
> for revision control?  What are the relative potential labor costs,
> here, of fixing their problems vs. implementing the work-around in
> ancillary tools?  And who's paying?
> 
> Aren't we essentially creating a kind of abstract caste system here?

So, it seems to me that you're attempting to create a RCS for a perfect
world rather than designing for the cases that exist out there today?
Is that an accurate summation?

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