2010/10/2 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com>: > On 2 October 2010 21:50, Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.faco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Le 2 octobre 2010 17:52, Nicolas Lécureuil <neoclust.mag...@gmail.com> a >> écrit : >>> >>> >>> 2010/10/2 Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.faco...@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> 2010/10/1 Sinner from the Prairy <sinnerb...@gmail.com>: >>>> > Fabrice Facorat wrote: >> >>>> > Mandriva tries that, with look'n'feel consistent on MCC, KDE and Gnome. >>>> > draketools work on TUI or GUI. They work well. >>>> >>>> some tools does not work correctly however and are buggy >>>> >>> >>> Better is to fix them instead of rewrite all. >> >> you know, when something have been broken for more than 2 years ... at >> some point you may think that the best would be to just change it ;-) >> >> >> >> -- >> Close the World, Open the Net >> http://www.linux-wizard.net >> > > Specifying what exactly is wrong is an essential issue here: > - Just "perl is hard to understand" isn't a problem for users, users > don't code it.
but for dev and potential contributor this increase the antry barrier for contribution > - Not being used by other distros is again not a problem, each distro > has native tools that no other distros use (as misc said a couple of > emails up) sure. But do Mandriva still have enough man power to maintain so many tools ? > So, no, I wouldn't throw my old box out the window because if it works > even if it's slow, until I buy a new box / can afford a new box. > drakxtools work, until a viable alternative, if needed at all, is > provided they should be kept. I do say that we should do a complete analysis of all the mandriva tools ( drakxtools, drakwizard, ... ), and have the decision on a per-tool basis -- Close the World, Open the Net http://www.linux-wizard.net