Dependencies in the PPA for Jaunty

[Maritza Mendez]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

> Maritza Mendez writes:
>
>  > I just keep thinking... bzr cannot be the only project which has faced
> this
>  > challenge.  Who are those projects and what can we learn from them?  I
> don't
>  > have a good project to offer as a role model yet.  But I am sure they
> exist,
>  > because this challenge has nothing to do with bzr especially and should
> be
>  > universal to all projects with active plugin communities.
>
> Er ... Debian?  Ubuntu?  Red Hat?
>
> Plugins are just DLLs by another name.  So this is just the problem
> that distros face on a smaller scale, so you hope to do better than
> the more comprehensive distros do with their sprawling collections.
>


Not really the same, I claim.  Or, more precisely, large differences in
scale bring qualitative as well as quantitative change.  Those distros you
mention are big sprawling projects as you say for which keeping track of
deps could be a full-time job.  Bzr is much more manageable because bzr
plugins are good for exactly one thing: bzr.  I don't see keeping track of
bzr plugins as being all that hard.  The real issue -- as others have
pointed out -- is how to balance innovation in the developer community with
reliability in the user community.  That's a social question, not a
technical question.

-M
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