Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We can burn those bridges when we come to them. Right now there's only > one such distribution, with one such language, which has already done > all the work to strip it down to a small size.
Scalability problems do not happen because someone failed to stop the tenth extra case. They happen because nobody stopped the second. > Unless you expect some derived Debian distribution to use Scheme some > day, this is sophistry. If you really do expect that, it's insanity. I once thought that it was insanity to expect Python to be in broad use. I was wrong. > I don't manage Ubuntu policy, nor do I want to. I am a Debian developer > interested in Debian. The argument for Debian is not "I'd like to write > scripts in X" but "There is this large body of people writing scripts in > X, and it'd be nice if we could work with them." Yes, I understand. I'm trying to understand--from a Debian perspective--whether there are any limits, or it really just is "lots of people are writing scripts in X"? And, how many scripts are we talking about anyway? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
