From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David A. Cobb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:47:41 -0400 Organization: CoxNet User Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <32998.5130731531$1031010531@news.gmane.org> References: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87adn1x705.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031010531 9774 127.0.0.1 (2 Sep 2002 23:48:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 23:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17m0w6-0002XX-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 01:48:50 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17m1UY-0004vT-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 02:24:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17m0xd-0002Dj-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17m0vJ-00023a-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17m0vH-00023O-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:48:00 -0400 Original-Received: from lakemtao03.cox.net ([68.1.17.242]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17m0vH-00023K-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:47:59 -0400 Original-Received: from cox.net ([68.14.72.20]) by lakemtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020902234753.RRSU16428.lakemtao03.cox.net@cox.net>; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:47:53 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020829 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7355 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7355 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >Footnotes: >[1] Note also that Debian goes to extreme lengths to insure >cooperation of packages it distributes among themselves, and where >possible interoperation with other systems. > > Um, you aren't saying this is a bad thing, are you Stephen? However a volunteer project likely can't take _extreme_ measures. It requires to enlist the positive co-operation of the contributors. And I'm well aware that some won't ever comply. Even when the documentation is "gold-plated" I was involved once in a gov't acquisition where we were frankly told "our programmers would rather quit than write C-Specs (Detailed Program Design Docs)." I was not in charge or I might have said that would be a benefit to the whole industry. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. .