From: Tobias Boege <tabo...@gmail.com> > Yeah... Let's don't get political here. >
> PS: I'm away over the weekend. I realise that I presented my views in a > rather destructive manner and as if they were facts - on purpose. If this > thread becomes a flame war about software development philosophies, > sophists > and globalisation I just want to say: he started it :-) And in case it > matters: I use vim, not emacs ;-) dont worry, its just u'r opinion.. but logic said: it when something works and just "the environment" force to upgrade/change, this being illogical, if something works it is illogical to change for something that has not been tested yet! RIGHT? > (I don't want to sound like a sophist but I have to note this:) > English is not my native language but at least the normally used German > word > for "development" means something around progress, kind of evolution. If > you > don't want new packages to be used, then you effectively say that Gambas > should not be developed anymore by software developers but just maintained > by some bookkeeper. Then you will soon find people leaving the project. It > would just not be interesting anymore. (Well, at least then, Gambas would > be > truly stable.) well develoment its about progress, of course, today this meaning was "misrepresented/twisted" in very convenient terms je! i cited, its about progres TO A FINAL POINT! not to a constant undefined no-end "upgrading way of things" > Of course I see that you mean two different things when you say "new" on > the one hand and "new" on the other hand but you should make it clear > to not get misunderstood. > > Maybe what you want is something like this: have someone maintain an old > stable release of Gambas and just patch in bug fixes (like the Linux kernel > does) to these releases. You can even have someone to only patch in bug > fixes and interpreter enhancements and leaving alone gb.media at > gstreamer-0.10. Why not? > > I tell you why not: you need people who volunteer (or someone who > volunteers > to hire someone ;-)) and there currently is nobody to do it. Will you? i doit that, my gambas packages has backported 12 patcheds from 3.5.X release u'r opinion its a interesting point! of course > > "There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk > yeah .. ¬_¬u -- Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO) http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
