[ On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 at 15:25:24 (-0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ]
> Subject: let's all take turns ranting
>
> That's one alternative. Forking is another. Neither is as cool
> as cooperating with an extant tool's community.
You literally cannot co-operate on diametrically opposed views! There
is literally no room for consensus.
> "Why bother," Kate
> asked. Well, she answered it herself: CVS does concurrency mostly
> right.
>
> Mostly. I mean no offense to the guardians of the secret meaning
> of the letter 'C' here, but I see CVS as a fixer-upper.
I think you missed Kate's point entirely.
> I think
> that supporting concurrency to the exclusion of other policies
> as a design flaw. Apparently I'm not alone here because I walked
> into a room where everybody has been talking this issue into the
> ground.
There are always a few people who would rather take someone else's idea
and re-mold it into their own *AND* force the original thinkers to give
up their original idea and accept the re-molded one no matter how much
they might dislike it.
> I wonder how many potential contributors have turned away with
> this fundamentalist stance.
Hopefully they've gone away to work on something where their efforts
would be apprecieated.
> I don't have any more free spare time
> per week that the 5 that Tobias mentioned. But I've heard of this
> amazing open-source idea where people pool their free time and
> come up with things much greater than any one of them could have
> accomplished. The problem with the model is that if you guard the
> source code with enough belligerent trolls it kind of destroys
> any hope of a community atmosphere and your fruit withers on the
> vine, much like the stagnancy that is CVS.
Once again: CVS is not marketing-driven software. It does not have to
gain market share. It does not have to bow to the wishes of the
masses. It does exactly what it was designed to do and it does it well
enough to attract people who want to use it for what it was designed to
do. In fact it seems to be so good at what it does that it even
attracts people who are really looking for something else!
> So sad. I love this tool and would rather not have to say goodbye.
You're loving a false image. A dose of reality will do you good.
--
Greg A. Woods
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