From: Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:51:51 -0700
You think the world is ready for Guile? guile is not ready for the world. current install practice spews .la and .so files all over $libdir and uses an internal "bugfixed" copy of libltdl (if my reading of the cvs commit logs is accurate). this is in the grand solipsistic tradition of guile development, which bletcherous nature (at present) is addressed by the OP's analysis. probably other projects suffer from similar manglement, which is why the analysis is relevant. that discussion does not continue is not surprising given that most programmers w/ available cycles to burn have difficulty smashing their ego in the name of Quality. although my response was another way of pointing this out, i think that regardless of human predilections the rise of software accountability, as implemented by OP's change proposal or otherwise, is inevitable. source code is just artifact, bits on a hard drive, a sentence w/o context. if you trust the speaker, fine. if you don't, where does that leave you? i'll tell you: in the same boat as those who trust their pensions to another whose methods are not known, in the same boat as those who trust their rights to another whose methods are not known, and so on. the suffering of people through ignorance is historic. knowing the method of software production is one way (perhaps the only way) of building trust in it. towards this, the auto* and like-minded tools should strive, and in doing so, help the people using those tools find courage in improving themselves and society at large. Can I have some of what you're smoking, please? :-) i ran out a while back, sorry. thi
