Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 10:24:24 -0700 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Cc: asami@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/cern_linemode - Imported sources Message-ID: <199504171724.KAA04576@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Apr 1995 10:08:44 PDT." <199504171708.KAA28725@ref.tfs.com>
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Actually, your statement is in conflict with what the guidelines (used to?) say. The original sentiment of ports was that we wanted the one or few best and brightest implementations of a given thing. Porting something just for the sake of quantity and not quality is a waste of time for the originator, a waste of time for the maintainer of the ports (us, collectively), and a waste of time for the users who then have to do value judgements of software on their own. In this case, I was picking on the CERN linemode browser specificily because it is such a total festering piece of shit, and we already have one that is so much better. I felt this would be an obvious 'test' case. Paul From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/cern_linemode - Imported sources > Given that we have lynx, is there any reason we want this too? > > > From: Satoshi Asami <asami@freefall.cdrom.com> > Subject: cvs commit: ports/net/cern_linemode - Imported sources There is no >port< we don't want. Anything people care to port is welcome. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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