On 6/19/07, Don Scorgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problems with scrollkeeper: > * It's unmaintained > * There are some outstanding bugs in it (we maintain 3 patches and apply > them during jhbuild) > * No facilities for fall-back languages > * Install time registration is a pain > * I'll stop there
You can't just stop like that! Let's get some real scrollkeeper hate flowing and maybe it becomes easier to see why Rarian is advantageous and needed. > And now for the bad news: > * It's currently lacking documentation. Fate, it seems, is not without > a sense of irony. Lacking documentation is a killer. As the author of the software it is your responsibility to ensure that there is decent documentation for the software you propose others to use. That point really cannot be stressed enough. Rarian is probably much better than scrollkeeper, but without documentation (which scrollkeeper has) it's a no go for me. > So there you have it. Anyone want to volunteer an opinion, question, > flame? Trollish, (but I'm honestly curious :)) why did you write it in C when there are many other languages around more suitable to the job? -- mvh Björn _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
