Michael Nordstr�m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Duncan Galloway wrote:
>> The plucker-build routine seems to fail because it can't get any web
>> pages which are linked on the same site as a higher-level one;
>
> See 3.5 in the FAQ. Seems like Red Hat still have this problem with
> their version of python. I will change the FAQ to say that both 7.0
> and 7.1 are affected by this.
This response is getting tiresome. What we have here is a lack of
platform independence with plucker. Where are the reports of bugs with
python on Red Hat 7.0? The plucker development list is the only place I
see it, and the report is limited to the observation that plucker's code
doesn't work on some people's Red Hat boxes. What exactly is the
problem with python on Red Hat? If no one knows, then it is not
appropriate to say in the FAQ that Red Hat has a python problem. No
offense, but given the track record, I have more faith in Red Hat's
python than plucker code robustness.
Also, anyone reading Mike's response that didn't already know a lot
about plucker would have a hell of a time figuring out what he is
talking about. The plucker web page -- the most useful place for a
FAQ-- doesn't have a FAQ in any obvious place (there's no link on the
main page, the search link goes nowhere, and the links link is also
empty). The next step a reasonable person might take is to download the
latest release of the plucker source, gunzip it, tar extract it, and
change directory. Oh, THERE's the FAQ. But still no 3.5. Oh, it must
in the CVS. Yep, there it is, exactly where any newbie just getting up
and running with the plucker v1.1 would check. Not.
As much as Mike has done for plucker, his defensive posturing in many of
his posts is tiring. It appears that Mike doesn't care too much for Red
Hat. Fine, don't support it. But with that attitude, you're ending up
not supporting the most used linux distribution out there, and costing a
great application a lot of visibility. I have recommended plucker in
the past to neophytes, but most of them gave up because installing it
was too complicated for them. The last thing they need is to install a
new python, when the old one already works for everything but plucker.
----Jon
