[haiku-development] Re: usr/bin

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:07:42 +0000, Rob Judd wrote
> Rubbish! The end user will NEVER run the validation tests, and on 

Then I don't see a reason to introduce such a link in the first place. If it's
a few cases where it is needed you can just as well make that link on your
local system, run the tests and remove it again. No real need to add it to the
system by default.

> Sounds like a complicated solution, considering that the average 
> end-user will never look in the root directory. Complicated 
> solutions don't impress me, I'm a pragmatist. For the last 35 years 
> I've made a living making things work, fast. The subversion upgrade 
> has been on the list for 21 months, so I built the damned thing. If 
> you have a problem with that I suggest that might explain why this 
> OS has taken 7 years to recreate.

I suggest you to pay more attention to your tone. Your attitude is not
acceptable. We have a high quality standard and aren't just trying to pull off
something as quickly as possible. Quick and dirty solutions and hacks don't
impress me. What impresses me is clean and readable code that one can
understand without going crazy and sane structures with attention to detail.
This is IMO the real strength of Haiku and why I personally contribute to this
project.

Introducing stuff to make recompiling things easier is not really sensible in
my opinion. As was stated already porting is not merely recompiling on another
system. When you port something for real you make it use native APIs and you
don't just also include the whole dependency tree to get a huge package. Yes,
this involves work, but in the long run it adds enormously to the quality of
the port at hand and the platform as a whole. If we end up just being a whole
bunch of compatibility layers and hacks so that more software runs unmodified,
we have IMHO failed, because then we could just as well run another operating
system in the first place.

Regards
Michael

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