On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:18:24PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Phil M Perry wrote: > > As I said later on in my post, a /private/ source control system available > > to a single author could still be useful for any nontrivial project, for > > the very reasons you listed. However, my point was that it was unnecessary > > and confusing for the general public to be presented with such a system if > > all they /really/ want is a ready-to-install package. > > That's got to do with package management, and not necessarily software > development. I'm not disagreeing with you, but at the same time this is > another side of the problem. It's one thing to design some software, another > make a .DEB or .RPM file (which might require releasing one for each > architecture...), another to set up your own package repository, and it's yet > another to attempt to get your software published in the distribution's > repository. Which of these do you "really" want?
Honestly, if you are going to release the software anyway, the effort to
do a public source tree (when things like github, source forge, and
google code exist) is pretty minimal. The net effect being that people
get to poke at bits between releases.
Most people won't bother, but the ones that will are typically the ones
you'll actually get useful bug reports or even patches from.
-Sean
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