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posted by marcov, 16.04.2008, 23:38

> > There is no "fpc" and "users". It is opensource, and all responsibility
> is
> > shared between all interested parties.
>
> No project really works that way. If everybody is responsible, then nobody
> is responsible and nothing gets done. But there is a core group that does
> take real responsibility and makes the serious decisions, like what will
> be in a package, when it will be released, etc.
True, but those decisions have already been made. Of course compromises and sacrifices are made all the time, but in general the direction is pretty long term.

> > As said, it is no priority,
>
> That's obvious.
Maybe I was a bit rash and brusque, sorry.

It is not really an option now, but a review of the entire packaging and buildsystem is being prepared. The validation of that system could coincide with other postponed changes to the system. But that won't make the upcoming 2.2.2 versions

> > and if you want to speed up the priority, the only solution is to put in
> some work.
>
> It is not one of my priorities. Sorry.
I'm not surprised. OTOH if you don't ask, you'll never get pleasant surprises :-)

> A good description of how a large engineering project works, at least in
> the US - we have a division of labor between design and construction
> departments.
Because corporations are top down. The more grassroots forms of Open Source that FPC belongs too (despite its more centralistic core team model) isn't.

> > Reuse of software is often portrait as easy, while it isn't.
>
> Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's not. Depends on how a project is
> organized.
There are many sides of it, but the popular blackbox model for external components without many strings or hidden costs is fatally flawed.

And that was what this was about. Research for those hidden costs.

> OS/2, not too bad. BeOS, forget it - I hardly know what it is.
Keep it that way, and forget the former.

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