Changes to our Git infrastructure

Jeff Mitchell mitchell at kde.org
Mon Jan 5 18:56:00 GMT 2015


On 5 Jan 2015, at 12:47, Thomas Lübking wrote:
> Stuff that relies on present and known libraries/executables has a 
> lower barrier. I've no gtk3 installation atm. and when I need to pick 
> among different tools, the one that doesn't require gtk3 wins.
> That may be irrational, but still happens.

I'd put window-oriented tools in a different class than CLI tools, 
because the tool using gtk3 may have a very different look and feel, 
which many users can find legitimately jarring.

>> Whatever you need to do your job, man.
> Erheemmm.... i doubt "need to do your job" holds for potential new 
> contributors in any aspect :-P

This was a comment to package X wanting to pull in a bunch of non-daemon 
libraries...not to people. :-)

--Jeff




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