[openbeos] Re: Haiku Vmware Build Environment
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:49:15 +0200
Andreas Färber wrote:
> My opinion is that this discussion which has been going on the last weeks
> is really tiring. For someone quite new to Haiku like me, it gives the
> impression that a War of the Websites has broken out, and that is
> certainly not good publicity for Haiku.
>
> The distro guidelines apply to everyone, so there's little point in
> arguing about their applicability. Those are not individual views, and
> nothing really contradicting regarding their applicability has lately
> been stated by the developers.
>
> On the other hand, arguing about how to technically comply with the
> guidelines on this list is totally fine, no doubt.
>
>
> Again in my opinion, it seems strange that someone saying he is not a
> developer tries to provide developers with a development download. As a
> developer desperately trying to get started with development on Haiku, I
> compare said 125 MB to the few KB or MB an incremental svn up takes in
> practice and consider that they're in VMware format only. But the real
> contradicting views here seem to be on whether or not to distribute a
> development image at this stage at all. In short that's the whole Alpha
> discussion. The Haiku developers have decided against that for now. As I
> understand it, the "Development" Optional Package is a large step towards
> that goal, and rather than just settling for and spreading this
> work-in-progress, some help with reviewing and improving that software
> would be good, to have the official Alpha finished sooner. For example,
> it recently turned out that the Perl port is not complete yet. And there
> is no Subversion optional package yet, which is even directly necessary
> for self-hosting Haiku. It's not that there's nothing left to do.
>
> I don't intend to be rude with this or the other post, just results-
> oriented. And I assume we all want Haiku to evolve nice and quickly,
> whatever views we might have on "the right thing" to do. Karl knows btw
> that I like his site in general.
Well said. The effort to bring Haiku closer to Alpha 1 is clearly there,
especially by Ingo Weinhold who works like a machine on the tool chain. I
very much regret I cannot be more active to help with bugs right now, but I
hope to be again next week.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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