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  • From: "M.L." <mlubrano AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...
  • Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 08:03:22 +0200

On Mercredi 9 Octobre 2002 00:45, Ryan Abrams wrote:
> One of the things that is currently floating around my head definately
> has to do with an abstracted spell access layer, to allow for things
> like this.
>
> that said, a full on database will almost definately NOT be the
> solution that is used by default (though a layer could be written to
> support it) - If /anything/ we will simply switch to using a cvs dir
> structure, so people can update via cvs instead of tarballs. But even
> that has its drawbacks.
>
> As I have tried to say before, all this is VERY VERY early. Lets get
> 1.0 done, and then let fly with all the fun ideas for how to make
> things better. Because there are lots of ways to do it... and many of
> them have value, but conflict. Which means we will have a great
> discussion post 1.0.

Agree. This thread is not focused on 1.0.

Even if sorcery/bash 1.0 is (and it is) messy, bashy and don't fits to our
long term goals, we have to reach 1.0 anyway...

Let language wars ends for now, and come back in a few months.
Then, try not to make SourceMage split because of a language war...

Bye,
Mat.

>
> In the end, it will come down to developers, team leads, and most
> importantly, Nick.
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 01:03 PM, Eric Sandall wrote:
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >> I'd agree with you on perl. MySQL though I doubt it. I refuse to
> >> install that right now. I see absolutely no need to have that on my
> >> system. The less stuff I have to have running, the better. That and
> >> I
> >> want to be capable of choosing what I have running at any given time.
> >> I
> >> do not want MySQL running at all times on my system, and starting
> >> MySQL
> >> every time I want to install or remove a program would be a pain.
> >
> > Why does it have to be MySQL? Some people prefere PostgreSQL (freer
> > license), but I'd rather DB as it's already installed on almost all
> > boxes,
> > is lighter, less CPU intensive, and provides a small database.
> >
> > -One of Four
> > a.k.a. sandalle
> >
> > --
> > Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux
> > Developer
> > eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org
> > http://www.sandall.us/~sandalle | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
> > http://counter.li.org #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
> >
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