Giuseppe Torelli wrote: > On 8/23/07, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's the mistake you made: trying to write your app focusing on edge >> cases and performance improvements and ignoring correctness and ease of use. >> I told you (and Stephan) this last year too, but you did not care. Premature >> optimization >> being the root of all evil and all that. > > I disagree with you. Why Ubuntu is considering to ship Tracker instead > of Beagle then?
tracker also has less bugs than beagle it's not just lighter. > >> Who cares about what happens with a 1Gb archive? Well, some people do but >> believe me, >> *many* more care about the case of .zip with 3 documents in it working well. > > gt[xarchiver]$ ll ~/Xarchiver_Test/many_files.zip > -rw-r--r-- 1 gt users 86096370 2007-01-12 13:17 > /home/gt/Xarchiver_Test/many_files.zip > gt[xarchiver]$ > out of curiosity is that an archive you created for this test or actually occured in day to day work? Actually do not answer, I know it's the former. Artificial benchmarks. > As you can see that archive was 86 MB not 1Gb and also Xubuntu is used > on low memory machines but you don't care of this, for you it matters > ONLY usability. > not only but a lot. >> Right. You are not a xubuntu developer however but one of the many upstreams >> and a very biased one too. > > I want to become an Xubuntu developer. What is needed? Your you need to actually care about xubuntu more than xarchiver. Tough choice I know. A prove of that would be for you to send patches that optimize file-roller until it is as fast as you could get xarchiver. Unlikely. > permission? I hope don 't ;) I am a biased person? So far the only > reason you have for saying I'm a prejudicial person is my clear refuse > to ship gutsy with GNOME libraries and this is enough for making me > such a person? The patronize tone is needed again, Jani, Jani. No, I am saying it because your tone is inappropriate and not constructive. I understand, it is about your app(s), but admit it then. Q: If file-roller didn ot have gnome deps would you still oppose the switch? Jani -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
