On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> What, if anything, really needs to be installed to $prefix/bin? > > From the Homebrew lead maintainer. > The maintainer of Homebrew calling anything a mess is pretty rich. Matt > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mike McQuaid <[email protected]> > To: "Homebrew/homebrew-core" <[email protected]> > Cc: Jed Brown <[email protected]>, Mention <[email protected]> > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:59:53 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [Homebrew/homebrew-core] PETSc: import from homebrew-science > (#23598) > > doesn't this attitude complete defeat the purpose of a package manager? > > You're asking of the hardest working package manager maintainers in the > world (@ilovezfs <https://github.com/ilovezfs>). Chances he has a better > idea about the purpose of a package manager than you do. > > I cannot understand not wanting a package because it is complicated to > install. > > This is perhaps because you do not maintain a package manager. > > What you're suggesting is that any software using PETSc should either > force users to compile it from scratch or discontinue supporting macOS > entirely. > > No, what's being suggested is that PETSc's currently upstream installation > is a mess and we don't want to maintain the hacks required to make it not > one indefinitely. You can copy and paste this formula as-is into a tap and > it'll work for you just fine. > > That seems like the wrong approach for a package manager. > > In the package manager you maintain you should take a different approach, > then. > > Just my opinion... > > If you have to end your statement like that: it's probably worth keeping > quiet in future, please. > ------------------------------ > > To be clear, I'm not being harsh here because I like doing so but because > this entitled, know-it-all attitude literally kills open source projects > and @ilovezfs <https://github.com/ilovezfs>'s motivation is more > important to me than allowing that to go unchallenged. > > — > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/23598#issuecomment-368122755>, > or mute the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAM552mxd56kfN9PcUoxdK4j4N3FLm_ks5tXxi5gaJpZM4R203Y> > . > > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/>
