Re: Features request



Am Donnerstag, den 13.03.2008, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Ouattara Oumar Aziz
(alias wattazoum):
> Tomasz Sterna a écrit :
> > The UNIX philosophy is to build small tools that does one thing, but
> > does it extremely well, and then connect these tools to create bigger
> > tools.
> > 
> > Creating big, monolithic, unmaintainable monstrosities is a completely
> > different philosophy.
> 
> So having nautilus lacking a feature and let others develop this feature
>  through whatever plugin is the UNIX philosophy.
> 
> Well let's admit this. Then, isn't part of the GNU philosophy to have
> software getting other people contribution into the main code (more, if
> it's a wanted feature from many users)?

that's not a contradiction.
it can be useful to only have few things in "core" (in this example:
nautilus) and put additional functionality into plugins, to keep the
basic functionality small and easier to maintain.
of course we do want people to contribute code to core and to
plugins. :)

andre
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