I agree totaly with you.. Manuel Segura
"Richard B. Kreckel" a écrit : > > Hi, > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, A Mennucc1 wrote: > [...] > > -----why is the 'win' port important? > [...] > > (Sorry for dropping in late to this thread, I was too busy lately to > follow debian-devel tightly.) > > The social contract says "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software". > Such a win-port might indeed serve some users. But for my own part, I do > have some personal problems with making all free software win-compatible. > Does it serve Free Software? Such ports frequently lead to crippled > design [1] and frankly, I do not like to give people more excuses for not > switching to an entirely free OS. > > The one argument I am missing from the discussion is this: The porters > find some problem with package foo and file a bugreport (most probably > critical) to the maintainer of foo who has to look into the problem, > withdrawing time for more important things than a weird port. It has > happened before [2] and it will happen again. We really shouldn't invite > everything into Debian. It will distract us from providing a really > useful free OS. > > For my own part, the mere thought of receiving reports like "package bar > doesn't build on win" gives me the creeps. I would have to log in to one > of those crippled machines, try to fix scripts, makefiles, code, whatnot. > Ugh. > > Instead, I would consider downgrading the bugreport to wishlist/wontfix. > > Regards > -richy. > > [1] Why does Apache have to abstract away their threads? Right, because > Winsux doesn't have pthreads. Admittedly, this might be a little > off-topic because that is for a native port, but that's the basic > pattern. > [2] Look at the parisc port: GCC-3.0 is not even officially supported > upstream and the entire toolchain seems to be changing frequently. > Some packages build one day but not the next. I wonder how they > want to release that stuff. > -- > .''`. Richard B. Kreckel > : :' : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > `. `' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > `- <http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Manuel Segura ESCPI - CNAM ---------------------------------------------------------------
