MC wrote: >> What would happen if IpsPkgTool and Imagine got >> together? >> Would it look like this? >> http://home.comcast.net/~hawk.john/IpsPkgTool-Imagine.jpg > > The same question can be asked of Gnome and KDE or mozilla and webkit or > ...... > > The answer is the same: sometimes different people like doing things > differently enough that they must (because they want to) remain exclusive. > > (Even if two projects are going to end up fulfilling nearly the same > requirements, the path they took to get there could be very different. That > is why Gnome and KDE will never be merged -- it is not because Gnome and KDE > software is so different, instead it is because Gnome and KDE _people_ are so > different!)
MC, I have to disagree with you (almost complatelly). You can't compare projects like KDE and Gnome with (I will be very honest) simple GUI for managing packages! Having different projects is very valuable, but not always, not in this case... Having different communities for project like GUI for IPS, which is at the moment very small project and this will not change, simply splits the same work across communities making the process of developnment much slower. Also two different communities will have to maintain the projects separatelly. In this case I am sure that merging those small projects that are written in the same language using the same PyGTK and both are the same licenses would have much more benefits. You are trying to put every project to one box. There are so many interesting ones that every from us can contribute to, so we should make simple things as simple as possible (and not simpler) and go on with another things. Otherwise in five years time we will be in the same point as we are now. P.S. Don't take me wrong, sometimes re-writing things or writing the same thing parallel (don't mix it with pair programming) is not bad at all, but this is not going to work with every piece of software :) -- best Michal Pryc http://blogs.sun.com/migi _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
