FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Unifying the sources (was re: slow upload)

["Udo Kuhnt" <048321887-0001@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Ray Andrews said:
>> It would be so nice to unify the sources, we keep loosing good people
>> because they either can stand the old, dirty sources (Bernie,
>> MHT) or because they won't work with us as long as we are divided (Igor).
>> So far no one has even told me what's wrong with my work.
>> Infact I don't think anyone has even looked.

> My understanding was that you had some independent ideas that you
> wanted to try out and went off on your own, thereby creating your
> own version. To complain now about the fork you created seems a bit
> unfair.

> Too bad you guys can't work together.

There is some truth in these words. I think Ray's version of core.exe
has become more of a fork than a developer's experimental source tree.

And yes, IMO that is the biggest problem with it.

Ray, why do you not try to get at least some of the improvements back
into the official version of core.exe? Surely things like a smaller
memory footprint would benefit it as well.

Perhaps the version control interface that you and Igor work on would be
the way to achieve this. If you could split your work into small patches
that could be applied to the official sources, we could merge them with
Joe's version.

Regards,

Udo

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