Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] Where XST is going.

[Richard Bos <allabos freeler nl>]

Chema,

it's a pity that you think it does not matter where the backends are stored.  

On woensdag 8 mei 2002 00:30, Chema Celorio wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 13:22, Richard Bos wrote:
> > Is it now possible to get the backend tools a neutral cvs provider like
> > e.g: sourceforge, savannah?  I believe that this will attract more
> > developers to the backend tools.
>
> No. We have never seen a actual contributor ask this. Believe me, having
> the backends on a neutral cvs is not the problem right now. If we would
> have moved the backends to sourceforge when the KDE guys said they where
> going to start working on their tools we would have had to add burden to

Which/what burden?

> the current developers and none of the KDE guys have done anything since
> then. So the real answer is that we are waiting for a real user of this
> code to ask for this, not for potential users.

Chicken and eg problem.  Someone needs to make the first step, you want to get 
more coders.  Not only kde is a target group, but people wanting a GUI via a 
browser (webmin e.g) could use the backends as well.

-- 
Richard Bos
For those without home the journey is endless



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