On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:09:36 +0200, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi> wrote: >Guillem Jover wrote: >> While upstreams are obviously entitled to not care at *all* about >> portability for their pet projects (at the risk of being either ignored >> or forked, I guess), trying to push so hard for the adoption of those >> projects as either foundation blocks or hard dependencies on other >> upstream projects seems quite arrogant and irrespectful to all the >> people interested in portability or to members and users of other >> operating systems or other implementations of the functionality such >> new projects are trying to displace. > >I think it's quite arrogant of BSD users to expect others to work to >support their systems. The BSD userbase is small enough that most >projects have alternative things to work on that help a lot more people >than BSD support would. Trying to support extra platforms the >maintainers themselves never use does have a real negative effect on the >rest of a project. > >It's definitely arrogant for users of other operating systems to try to >obstruct people from using better technology on Linux. It's not like >there would be anything equaling the quality of systemd that would run >on BSD. It's not your place to say that people shouldn't get to use it >on Linux, or that Linux users should have to work on BSD support to be >allowed to use it now.
There is a different between "I don't care about portability" and "I won't accept any patches that are only useful on non-Linux platforms". The former could be remedied by submitting documented and maintained patches, which saves the world from early forks that ae bound to diverge. The latter attitude is a showstopper. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1s46ys-0003xt...@swivel.zugschlus.de