On Sat, January 13, 2007 7:55 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > >> As an SCM guy I will say that you can s/git/<anything>/ and >> s/mercurial/<anything>/ and s/python/<anything>/ and I've seen it all >> before because (wait for it) ... >> >> ... something about being a SW developer turns otherwise normal people >> into egomaniacal cry babies with delusions of grandeur. The guys mostly. >> The chicks are usually quite sane. > > I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were > talking about the people bringing uninformed pressure to bear, either > direction. However: > > 1) I'm sure that the "chicks" in programming would be *SO* pleased with > your completely unsubstantiated, sexist assessment. I think I will fail > to pass it on further, thank you very much. >
What are you getting upset about? You're not a chick, you're a developer. > 2) While the original poster did make subjective comments about "ease of > use," he also made two very factual comments. The first was about RedHat > / Fedora being a big user of the implementation language. The second > was about being more able to contribute upstream changes. Given Linus > has already demonstrated complete intransigence even when wrong, this is > a not insubstantial issue. > And I saw a developer whining because he didn't like the tool set selected (although he didn't say if development had had input, which they should have). And what does Linus have to do with Red Hat's assigned tool set? > Finally, you will note that my first line points out that they wanted a > "distributed" source control system. SVN was not mentioned or > considered by them because it does not play in that particular space. > Why drag subversion into this? I don't recall saying anything about subversion. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
