In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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 -- Ben Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thoughtstream.org Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP/GPG key 1024D/1F06E509 -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
