On Jan 30, 2005, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In other words, you have somehow proved that it's impossible to both >> have better behavior and still be maintainable? This is quite a >> breakthrough in software engineering! :-) > No, I'm just trying to keep folks, including myself, from doing a lot of > work that ends up being a real serious pain for years on end. Like trying to get everybody to agree on a format that is specifically designed to get every user to download a multi-megabyte file every time a repository has any change whatsoever? If you're trying to avoid real serious pain for years on end too, we're on the same boat :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
