On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:25:50 -0000, Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2007-12-17, Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
a) ion3 has been removed from `macports' which is the MacOSX
package management system.
Good.
Really - You think that's good?
I really do question your sanity at times, more recently than ever before.
You have written, and published, a pretty decent WM, but don't seem to
want anyone to benefit from it.
Simply adding the message you want to the top of the ion man page, and
that "informational" window that you get first time you run ion really
ought to be enough to say "this package may not be the latest available -
check tuomo's site". TBH - I'd not care if that popped up every time I ran
ion (once every 6 months or so, whenever I have a power cut).
I think it really would be a wise and nice thing to do and
draw a line at demanding some unambigous info in the package
that it's none of your buiseness if an old version does not
work as expected. enforcing "under cover" names is
ridiculous.
This distros are mostly composed of ridiculuous fuckwits and
dickheads -- ex school bullies who can only package and corrupt
others' software -- if even that -- and not actually write new
software, let alone something that wouldn't be a clone (the whole
FOSS movement is incapable of that). They consider it "unreasonable"
and impossible to add prominent notices that I will have nothing
to do with their obsolete and modified shit. Renaming is the
alternative to that.
So anyone who doesn't spend all their time recompiling software for what
is, for most people, a tool and nothing more, is an idiot according to you.
Well, I almost exclusively use binary packages - because they make my life
easier. And yes I expect them ALL to behave the same way. If you're
writing a distro then that level of consistency in your package management
is important. Adding prominent messages to ion (the program, not a special
case in the package handler) is much easier. People who hate it strongly
enough can simply compile it out if they want (or you could add a config
option) - package maintainers won't bother.
otherwise this seems a sure strategy to finish `ion3' off
outside of a _very_ small group. I'm sure you would'nt care
but need you enforce such a thing?
I don't want to have anything to do with the typical specimen of
the FOSS herd. I rather deal with a handful of nice and intelligent
people.
You'd rather deal with yourself and only yourself - you've demonstrated
this arrogance before, and will do again. It's a shame that I don't have
the time to write a tiling WM myself, because I actually think that a
couple of us here could do a very good job of it.
John
--
John Robson
