On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:38:22AM +0200, Alexander Demenshin wrote:
That's why I dislike what is going on. Not the language by itself. May be I was too hard in my wording, but I am just tired after several years trying to do _anything_. Nothing changed - Pike team is _always_ right.
those who do the work are always right, this is true not only for pike but for every other free software project out there.
It would be much better if Pike would give _a freedom_ to developers.
to much freetom gets you perl, thanks but no thanks.
But there is no freedom. There are rules, which are non-negotiable by definition.
they are negitiable, but your negotiation power depends on your contributions. it's just like owning stock. the more you own, the more your vote counts.
because there is no good regexp module,
there IS a good regexp module, it is waiting for someone to find the time to add it to the pike tree.
because Nettle is far better than openssl,
nettle is a contribution by someone who is taking the time to actually contribute. if i understand things right, nettle was not written because pike needed better crypto, but for some other reasons that nils wanted to show in his diploma thesis, its inclusion into pike is a bonus. nils would not have received a diploma for updating openssl in pike.
I lost my motivation to share anything that I might do... It wouldn't be accepted anyway, so who cares?
have you even tried to get anything accepted? i have not seen anything yet. you are assuming based on things that happened in the past, which for a long time has been controlled by roxen.
many are not contributing because they believe that nothing has changed since then. because they are not contributing, some things are not changing (see regexp), and because these things do not change, they believe nothing has changed. (can you see the circular causality here?)
things ARE NOT going to change UNTIL YOU start to contribute.
greetings, martin.