Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: User interface,TeXmacs and Axiom

[Bob McElrath]

Page, Bill address@hidden wrote:
> On Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:07 PM Pierre Doucy wrote:
> > 
> > Even if diversity is a good thing, Bob has a point.
> > That's very good news if people want to hack stuff around
> > Axiom, but it there is not a clear line, like an official
> > GUI, an official SCM, etc...
> >
> 
> Well, this is the developer email list ... :)

I'd suggest that diversity is good, but eventually we should focus our
meager resources, and choose an official SCM and GUI.

The reason for much of the diversity is that we're all exploring
different ways of doing things without knowing what is best.

But we can't explore forever.  Perhaps we could set some kind of
deadline, and all vote on e.g. an official SCM and repository location.
(of course what people do privately is their own business -- this would
be about what is presented on the website to outside non-developers)

A similar argument can be made for the GUI.

--
Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]

    "It is almost universally felt that when we call a country
    democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every
    kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they
    might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one
    meaning." -- George Orwell

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