"Trent W. Buck"
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:39:28PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Trent W. Buck writes:
In an ideal world, we just make sure it builds with the latest tools, and let the users of stable distros worry about telling us if it breaks against whatever versions they care about.
This is very disappointing coming from (some) developers of *version control software*! You'd think they, of all software developers, would be sympathetic to the need to, well, control versions!
Let me clarify that the above are my *personal* opinions, and I'm not really involved in the Darcs Haskell code -- just the surrounding build and documentation infrastructure.
I'm speaking more from my role as a Debian maintainer and user than as a member of the Darcs comunity.
Actually, even more than that I'm speaking as someone who for years tried to keep shell scripts portable and POSIX clean and working even on ten-year-old versions of Solaris... before deciding that I was investing waaaaay too much time testing on those systems considering approximately zero of my users ran them. So I said "fuck it, I'll use bash and assume GNU coreutils, and if it breaks on someone's system, they'll tell me."