On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:28:28AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 13:05, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > - All developers are forced to install new software and learn it (always > > > a pain). > > > > Developers are used (or ought to) to learn new things since it's of > > programming art. I guess learning wouldn't be a problem. > > From a theoretical point of view, you're definitely right, but the reality > looks reverse to me. For instance, look at the inability of developers to > editors... Even if Emacs is far superior when writing GNU-style C code, vi > users never try to learn how to use Emacs. When it comes to command-line > utilities vs. graphical applications, the situation is even worse. > > In my experience, (unfortunately) developers are too lazy to change tools. > They change, only when they are forced or excited for some (geeky) reason. > This includes myself.
Maybe you find interesting to know that I never use RCS (any of them) merging feature at all. I prefer to extract patches from RCS and manage them myself. I often even manage branches by hand as well. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
