Well. It's off-topic. I guess it came to mind because the Journal and datastore are a point of incompatibility between Sugar and the rest of the Linux desktop world.
Erik On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:16:25AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > Could you please elaborate on what the behavior of the Journal has to > do with this thread? > > -walter > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 05:01:41PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > >> My impression, based on historical conversations with the parties > >> involved is that there are a bunch of hackers who feel that we did > >> ourselves a disservice by dropping _so much_ backwards compatibility, > >> specifically with Unix filesystems and desktops, in exchange for > >> cool ideas. The feeling is that had we traded compatibility for features > >> less aggressively then there would be many more hackers available to > >> help write the features since there would be many more hackers who felt > >> it was possible to live within Sugar. > >> > >> This is just an impression, however. > > > > For what it's worth, it is also my impression. I have heard similarly > > from virtually all technically-oriented parties involved. I have heard > > echos of this from less technical users (e.g. teachers who are confused > > by the behavior of the journal). > > > > Erik > > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel