On 3 October 2010 09:58, Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.faco...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ? >
(Who's talking about Mandriva?) About man power, if a distro doesn't have enough man power to maintain so many tool, do you think it'll have enough man power to port them to another language so that others can contribute / "lower the entry barrier"? or even integrate other tools in the distro? >> 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 > Sure. (Do you proposed to participate in that evaluation?). -- Ahmad Samir