On 07/31/2009 01:12 AM, James Antill wrote: > *sigh*, if you want to do some benchmarking of different package > managers available in Fedora (zypp makes the 4th, if apt is working > again) then feel free to actually do _a bunch of work_ comparing apples > to apples. You'll almost certainly be speaking privately with developers > from all of the tools, to make sure you aren't screwing it up. _Then_ > post the results somewhere.
Raising the bar so high on public discussion of application performance is essentially an attempt to stifle it. We don't make progress by commissioning scientific studies as soon as new ideas are put forth, we see first if they pass the smell test. But to get to the substance of the matter, do you mean to say that it's not possible for libsatsolver to improve the speed or correctness of yum, or simply that people who are not currently working on yum shouldn't participate in discussions about it? (technically speaking, I did contribute a fix to urlgrabber to fix a problem with interrupted downloads last year, but it wasn't accepted, so I just ran it locally) > If, however, you want to just post "yum is slow" feel free to not do so > on f-d-l. Likewise with quick "benchmarks" like this (which amounts to > the same thing, IMO). Somehow you forgot to quote where I said yum was doing more work and it downloaded twice as fast. It sounds like you're trying to project unrelated anti-yum sentiment onto my simple report of positive progress on Michael's part. Just to be clear, I'm a big fan of yum and I'd like to see it improved. If libsatsolver can make it faster and more correct, I don't understand the reluctance. So far, nobody has suggested that it's yet good enough for any of the tasks such an integration would require. If you know that Michael's work is an algorithmic dead-end, please just let us know that, it would be very useful information. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Cell: 603.252.2606 Twitter, etc.: bill_mcgonigle Page: 603.442.1833 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
