* Ian Clarke <ian.clarke at gmail.com> [2008-12-12 17:56:59]: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Florent Daigni?re > <nextgens at freenetproject.org> wrote: > > I don't care what you'd say. You are pushing for infrastructure changes > > to be made: you are the one making demands here. The policy is what it > > is: special cases suck and should be avoided. It's not like there wasn't > > any alternative. > > Nextgens, I don't understand why you are being so hostile here. Zero3 > has generously offered to provide something the project desperately > needs, a simple installer for Windows. Windows isn't just a "special > case", its the majority of our target user-base! > > We should be encouraging Zero3 to do this and offering to help in any > way possible, not attacking him. > > Ian.
Needless to say that quoting taking care of removing all the surrounding context is unfair... Anyway; it's up to us to decide what is possible and what isn't. I am not speaking about technical feasability here: everything is possible in CS. What he is suggesting here doesn't seem "possible" to me... I have suggested alternative approaches which contrary to his proposal *are* possible. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081213/1abe16b6/attachment.pgp>
