Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 11:07:36 -0700 From: Gary Palmer (FreeBSD/ARM Team) <gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>, asami@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/cern_linemode - Imported sources Message-ID: <11576.798142056@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Apr 95 10:24:24 PDT." <199504171724.KAA04576@precipice.shockwave.com>
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In message <199504171724.KAA04576@precipice.shockwave.com>, Paul Traina writes: >The original sentiment of ports was that we wanted the one or few best and >brightest implementations of a given thing. Porting something just for the >sake of quantity and not quality is a waste of time for the originator, >a waste of time for the maintainer of the ports (us, collectively), and a >waste of time for the users who then have to do value judgements of software >on their own. I think you've got this backwards. The ports collection is here to give the end user a CHOICE. If he wants to run the linemode browser, xdaliclock, or any of the other programs which have been ported, it is up to him. The ports collection is there to make things easier to get at, and to patch up, if necessary, software to work under FreeBSD 2.x. We are not here to make critical judgements on a particular piece of software. That is up to the end user. Just because you don't like the linemode browser doesn't mean that everyone else agrees... >In this case, I was picking on the CERN linemode browser specificily because >it is such a total festering piece of shit, and we already have one that is >so much better. I felt this would be an obvious 'test' case. This is a flame, and something I'd rather not see. Please QUALIFY your statement or run the risk of being ignored. Gary
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