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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] solving problems where your wheel is the squeekiest
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Daniel Stone |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] solving problems where your wheel is the squeekiest |
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Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:48:37 +1100 |
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:12:32PM -0800, Thomas Lord wrote:
> > 'make clean && tla commit && make'
>
> > Can take a very long time (hours) for something like x.org or OOo.
>
> Isn't that something to beef to x.org and OOo about? How does their
> first-year-student-fundamentals bogosity warp into a design requirement
> for revision control? What are the relative potential labor costs,
> here, of fixing their problems vs. implementing the work-around in
> ancillary tools? And who's paying?
>
> Aren't we essentially creating a kind of abstract caste system here?
So, it seems to me that you're attempting to create a RCS for a perfect
world rather than designing for the cases that exist out there today?
Is that an accurate summation?
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