Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 14:00:19 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is currently really a mess (was: Re: Tk/Tcl broken(?)) Message-ID: <2222.870728419@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Aug 1997 10:18:55 PDT." <199708041718.KAA04267@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> Actually, the main failing of Apple, historically, has been that > any time there was a tradeoff between ease of use for the user and > ease of use for the developer, it was the policy that the user won. > > This won Apple a lot of die-hard users, who are still around. > > It won them few developers. This is an overly simplistic summary of the situation, however. We *do* support the developers, and the very existance of -current goes quite a bit beyond anything Apple ever did to let developers in on their plans for future OS technologies. This whole ports thing has been a tempest in a teapot, and while I don't argue that the ports collection is useful to developers and users alike, I don't think that it's tantamount to saying that our support for developers has suddenly dried up and disappeared because of this one problem in supporting ports for -current. Jordan
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