[haiku] Re: The state of Haiku
- From: pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:29:44 -0800
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 06:41:53AM +0000, Brian Hague wrote:
The main reason why I stopped using beshare was the politics, and bickering
about politics. Oh and tiger, the troll...
I've not been back since 2004, trolls, Bush versus Kerry, openbeos versus
blue eyed os... Very tedious if your trying to get work done, I'm too beta
to get into arguments, so I don't.
Oh, ouch!! (:-)) I never encountered any of that... Have to admit I wasn't
much
of a BeShare user back in the day. BeBits was too convenient.
There's none of that at the moment. Very little chat, in fact, except the
occasional discussion of someone's relevant problem. Could deteriorate
again I suppose if attention returns. I'm thinking of BeShare much more as
a package source that a chat service anyway.
Bebits was the repo for everyone back in the day. If you didn't have
dependencies then it should be easy to install a program under any
circumstances. I've been against a lot of decisions with haiku, but pm is a
great idea that needs tweaks. It's been discussed here ad nauseam, and
there was even a discussion of forking pre pm haiku into a different
company.
I don't think I've actually encountered anyone who is dead-set anti-PM...!
Some of us feel though that it isn't always the most convenient path.
Its strength is where you have dependencies that have to be satisfied,
and can cause chaos in a more basic scheme if they don't match.
The vast majority of the apps that I have both used and written, though,
are essentially dependency free --Sequitur, ArtPaint, MusicWeaver,,,
most all of the old BeOS stuff. The big convenience of the old scheme
was that you could unpack a zip anywhere that matched your needs
(and for me that was often *not* cluttering up the system, or even
the config hierarchy) and have it immediately usable. Dropping an
hpkg into 'packages' is a bit neater, but then you're liable to have to go
searching for things like documentation, which in the unpack-zip method
would usually all be in the one place.
So I'd like to see the repositary and a more 'liberal' archive living side
by side. Stuff that was important/popular would doubtless migrate to
a repositary eventually, but could in the meantime be quickly available.
Just the way I see it, anyway.
-- Pete --
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