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  • From: "Jose Bernardo Silva" <jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com>
  • To: Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>, Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: mozilla /galeon
  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:55:48 +0000

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:39:24 -0500, Robin Cook wrote
> On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 20:43, Hamish Greig wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:26, Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:
> > > Well, I don't use either gnome 1 or gnome 2 desktop. The only gnome app
> > > I
> > > use is gnucash -and after adding all my bank accounts and entering all
> > > data
> > > for the last couple of years by hand (local banks export data in excel
> > > worksheets only) I am ready to fight for it... :)
> > I don't think it will come to that.
> > But if it does?
> > Old fashioned duel? Swords or pistols ?
>
> humm I choose sword and shield.... *grin*

Gunpowder barrel with a candle burning on top. The last one to move away
before it blows wins.

>
> > Seriously, we don't want to rob anyone of useful apps, we just want to
> > clean
> > up some older stuff that HAS been ported to gnome2. Gnome1 will stay for
> > as
> > long as these (special) apps need it. But I do believe anything that can,
> > should be removed from grimoire. WE don't have the manpower needed to
> > continue supporting useless crap that no-one uses. ANd we have over 2000
> > spells now with less than 40 developers.
> > I know part of the "free" software ethos is "choice" but really,
> > supporting
> > superceded apps just for "decency" isn't what we should be about. If
> > there IS
> > a new version that works we need a damn good reason not to remove the old
> > one.
>
> I agree of not getting rid of the core gnome1 libraries until all the
> gnome1 spells have either been ported or support for them dropped.
> As it is getting tougher to keep the gnome1 apps working as they stagnate
> while the rest of the linux world keeps advancing.
>
> CuZnDragon
> Robin Cook

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