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On 10/11/2012 02:45, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Claude Buisson<clbuisson@orange.fr>  wrote:
>
>> I can easily understand that developpers are happy to switch to new tools,
>> but
>> the question is: do FreeBSD developpers care a bit about non developpers,
>> and
>>
>
> FreeBSD developers are required to keep their development systems and tools
> with the needs of non-developers as the primary requirement?
>

You are just misinterpreting what I said.
The "previous generation" of developers devised a very efficient way of
distributing their work to non-developpers, with light tools, a large network of
mirrors, etc. This is now killed in a somewhat disruptive way (for non-developers).