On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 08:47:29PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > > > > > %configure --without-graphicsmagick --with-rtree > > > > > > That seems BAD since we know that GraphicsMagick support is > > > probably more reliable than say ImageMagick today. > > > > Yep. > > > > Here's the thing. Folks come and go on this project, contributing little > > things for their favorite operating system, scripts that have made their > > own lives easier, etc. And they got committed into CVS, even though the > > developers themselves don't use them. > > > ??? > Wouldn't a developer still have to commit stuff like that into CVS???? > > ???I've written Xastir related scripts before, but I've never tried to get > them into the repository. I did show Curt a revised version of the ads-b > script a while back, but that was an attempt to get him to incorporate some > or all of my changes into his - not to add a separate script to the repo. > Did some non-Developers have the rights to commit changes into CVS?
That's the part of "folks come and go" --- over the years lots of folks have done enough useful stuff to have been given commit access, and even when they haven't, they've given a convincing enough argument at the time that someone just went ahead and added something to CVS that was sent over the transom and sounded useful. But without someone actively maintaining a niche script, its presence in CVS (or git, now) gives the illusion of support that isn't there. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
