On 30 September 2010 23:06, Joachim Breitner <m...@joachim-breitner.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2010, 11:15 +0200 schrieb Heinrich Apfelmus: > > Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > on planet.debian.org, there is some ill-tempered discussion about the > > > seemingly bad relationship between the Ruby community and Debian > > > maintainers. The following blog post summarizes the issues quite well > > > and calmly: > > > http://gwolf.org/blog/ruby-dissonance-debian-again > > > > (The link doesn't seem to work, only http://gwolf.org/blog is available.) > > I’m attaching the entry as it was produced by feed2imap.
I did have a read through all that and have discussed it with a ruby developer I know. My understanding is that the biggest difference here between the Ruby and Haskell developer communities is that they try to push through the whole "release early and release often" mantra to the extreme, whereas we typically try to support as many versions as possible. Furthermore, we _try_ (and keep discussing how to improve testing and detection for this) to specify API breakage via version numbers, etc. and to keep such breakage to a minimum. For another set of distro maintainer woes regarding Ruby, have a read through Diego Elio “Flameeyes” Pettenò's (a Gentoo developer) blog entries: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/ruby -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
