From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:13:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mf8v57-l4p.ln1@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e01d8a51003020243t33be2de2j530fc2d7419c6070@mail.gmail.com
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Berndl, Klaus
> <klaus.berndl@capgemini-sdm.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I think the worst problem is the scattering of scarce resources. Eric
>>>Ludlam is such a resource ;-)
>>
>> exactly - therefore my vote for focussing the scarce resources to the most
>> important tasks - otherwise there will be a very high risk to get bogged
>> down...
>
> And you are of course a scarce resource too and I have noticed you
> have had difficulties to find time to support ECB as you want to.
>
> It is a common and serious problem and one we must fight if we want
> free software to succeed.
>
> The diversity hits the users too. As I have said I recently had a
> discussion with a long term GNU/Linux user who jump off to Windows 7
> because the quality of the mid-level library was too low on GNU/Linux.
> The key factor was the diversity (too many libraries doing the same
> thing) which he thought creates this problem.
>
> I think solving this is urgent - and very, very difficult.
>
Common sense.
The main issue is that as soon as you suggest concentrating resources in
any shape or form then the usual suspects jump out and accuse you of
being anti Freedom and choice.
Its madness.
Support the main Emacs distribution and let the tiny minority who want
their own little niche port it over if necessary.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 18:53 Fwd: CEDET sync Lluís
2010-03-01 18:59 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-01 19:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-01 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-01 22:07 ` Fabian Ezequiel Gallina
2010-03-01 22:42 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2010-03-02 7:58 ` AW: " Berndl, Klaus
2010-03-02 8:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-02 9:35 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-02 9:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-02 10:36 ` AW: " Berndl, Klaus
2010-03-02 10:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-02 11:08 ` AW: " Berndl, Klaus
2010-03-02 21:03 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-03 3:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-05 13:45 ` Michael Sperber
2010-03-05 17:07 ` read syntax for window configs (was: CEDET sync) Drew Adams
2010-03-05 17:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-06 17:44 ` read syntax for window configs Juri Linkov
2010-03-06 17:48 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-06 19:32 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-18 16:07 ` Michael Sperber
2010-03-18 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-19 10:48 ` martin rudalics
2010-03-19 11:09 ` Michael Sperber
2010-03-19 13:07 ` martin rudalics
2010-03-19 15:31 ` Michael Sperber
2010-03-02 11:13 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2010-03-02 11:42 ` AW: Fwd: CEDET sync David Kastrup
2010-03-02 15:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-02 16:06 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-02 17:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-02 17:58 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-03 3:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-02 18:40 ` OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync) Stefan Monnier
2010-03-02 19:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-02 22:07 ` David Reitter
2010-03-03 22:48 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-03 4:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-03 22:48 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-03 10:37 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-03 10:37 ` AW: Fwd: CEDET sync Richard Stallman
2010-03-03 18:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-03 19:00 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-05 20:05 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-06 4:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-06 7:45 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-03 7:07 ` joakim
2010-03-02 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-02 15:59 ` AW: " Berndl, Klaus
2010-03-02 16:08 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-02 16:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-02 20:28 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-03 4:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-03 4:47 ` Miles Bader
2010-03-03 7:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-03 15:45 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-03 7:41 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-03 8:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-03 9:10 ` tomas
2010-03-03 10:02 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-03 16:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-02 18:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-03 10:38 ` Richard Stallman
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