Re: [Gnu-arch-users] planning 2.0?

[Peter Conrad]

Hi,

Am Freitag, 21. April 2006 15:09 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Peter Conrad <address@hidden> writes:
> > You have to balance cost against usefulness. If 8.3 filenames
> > were the limit on today's windows, the usefulness of sticking
> > to the limit would probably outweigh the cost.
>
> I'd like to point out that this is clearly a political argument --- I
> can't believe that you'd honestly defend such a technical flaw.

I'm not defending it. I'm arguing as a professional user of RCSs
who has to live in a reality that happens to contain machines running
windows. Part of the job of an RCS is to enable cooperation in a
team. An RCS that doesn't run on windows cannot perform that job
(in my environment), and thereby disqualifies itself as a useful tool.

This is not a political argument, it's being pragmatic.

Bye,
        Peter
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