Steve A wrote: > Fulvio - you are a great technical coder - the best here, and Scid > would still be a slow clunker without you - but your project is filled > with bugs, and you don't have a good a clue about making a good interface :) > As is obvious from most everyones response here except yours, > this project needs my codebase and interface. > > cheers, Steve > > I've looked at the c++ code, already committed in scid the minor differences, and just a couple of things remains before there is already a common back-end (crosstable and gamelist windows; by the way, there is a reason (bugs?) why you didn't take Gerd's changes of filter.h and filter.cpp into scidvspc repository?) I will continue to work to make the code converge and i hope that you will change your mind and agree to a proper merge and take the lead.
However, it's seems that i'm not able to explain myselft: i'm not challenging your interface design. If someone would have proposed the other way around, delete scidvspc code and replace it with scid code, i would have been equally upset. Many people today use free software, like Linux or Firefox just because it's free. But free software is not about money, it's about freedom and community. People who freely donate their time and skills for a common goal. Even small contributors, who fix a bug, provide an icon or made some translation, feels proud about it because they became part of the community and give something useful back to the other. You don't throw away their efforts for no reason. I've mentioned Firefox and let me use it as a perfect example. Firefox was a fork of the Mozilla suite (with mail, calendar, etc), and many people that use Firefox don't even know that the Mozilla suite exists. But even today, if you want and you are a little bit nostalgic or masochist, you can still download and use the Mozilla suite. And this is another important thing of free software: the freedom of choice. In short: - merging two projects, taking the best from both to have a better common project is good. - if the merge is technically too complicated, having both live separated is good. - deleting a free project without reason is bad. I hope we can all agree to this. Bye, Fulvio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
