[Gnu-arch-users] Re: community spirit

[Nikolai Weibull]

* Samuel Tardieu <address@hidden> [Nov 01, 2004 15:40]:
> > I'm sure their intentions are good, yet one has to wonder
> > exactly why they wish to solve their issues with the current
> > interface to Arch in this manner.  nikolai

> Several aspects of the current tla codebase are questionable, e.g:
>   - the use of hackerlib instead of libc because Tom considers libc as
>     broken
>   - the option handling is far from well factored, per design decision
>   - no abbreviations are allowed, per design decision
>   - the use of a low-level language like C instead of higher level
>     languages allowing much faster experiments
>   - the use of pika-escaped filenames in tla output

Yes, but all these choices are irrelevant if you simply write a wrapper
around tla as it stands now.  There's really no need for a code fork to
deal with these aspects.  I mean, sure pika-escaping may be annoying,
but if you write a wrapper, you can easily convert them (that's kind of
the point after all).

Still, the bottom line seems to be that tla should be factored into
support libraries and a default interface so that people can more easily
do whatever they want with the code/protocol.
        nikolai

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