In article <10113@palm-dev-forum>, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>My version is the official one. For the lack of any other criteria of official
>status, my version is the official one because of all existing post-0.5.0
>versions it is the only one that matches the original prc-tools (0.1.0 through
>0.5.0) in the mission and purpose statement and overall design.
What is this "mission and purpose statement"? I can't find it in the
prc-tools-0.5.0 source archive. Unless you can provide evidence to the
contrary, it seems to me that the mission of prc-tools is and has always
been to create a Free/Open Source toolset for creating PalmOS
applications, in which case both your and John Marshall's versions are
equally "official" by this criteria.
John Marshall's prc-tools-2.0 has one characteristic which, while
not traditionally meaningful in the world of Free Software, is percieved
as very important by many developers - His version is officially
endorsed by Palm Computing.
I have believed since the beginning of this conflict that (at least) one
of the two prc-tools packages should be renamed, but neither maintainer
is willing to do this. I think that while the two packages are
coexisting with the same name, most people will choose Marshall's
version, partially because he works for Palm, and partially because he
makes it relatively easy to install on Windows (which, like it or not,
is the OS used by the majority of developers) (and even with this,
people have problems with the installation - imagine if they tried to
compile everything from source).
When you say "prc-tools-2.0 isn't the latest version; 0.6.0 is", people
may think you're just whining or incoherent; if instead you say "you may want
to try sokolov-tools-0.6.0 instead of prc-tools" (I'm not actually
suggesting you call the software 'sokolov-tools'; substitute whatever
name you want there) you would come across as being much more reasonable.
-Ben
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