Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: Why I hate TexMacs

[Henri Lesourd]

Eli Osherovich wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I just wanted to draw developers' attention. 
> In the past I reported a couple of bugs, however, the first reaction was 
> something like "these bugs were fixed in the latest version". Nevertheless, 
> when I checked the latest version the bugs (surprise) still were there.
>
>  
Depends on which bugs it is: the hard ones are usually
fixed quickly.


> My dear developers, I am, personally, a big believer in the OSS, but (our) 
> biggest problem is low quality of the code. 
> I see no point to add new nice buttons or compiling under a hundred OS's 
> before your basic functionality is ok.
>
>  
The TeXmacs codebase is quite clean, and the basic
functionality *is* definitely okay.

There are also lots of details that are not fixed,
most of the time because as soon as you know how
to hack a little bit in TeXmacs, you can always
more or less find a way to do what you want.


> P.S.
> Unfortunately, I cannot help this project, simply because my skills are not 
> suitable for this. 
>
>  
Too bad you are only a "believer" as you say
above.

P.S.
Skills can be extended by means of a process
called "learning".