On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:29:19PM -0400, Cristian Rodriguez wrote:
Although ,I Agree with your rant, and found this sudden move to MONO (.NET) or whatever very bad,disappointing, and unnecessary (specially in the middle of the distro development, and having previous, well tested,mature software,that works.) I think you are missing the real point, it doesn't matter if the file extension is pl or exe or whatever, the most important thing is **how it works**.
That is naturaly the first important thing. The second is some kind of logic and calling things *.exe points to a Microsoft enviroment, no matter how wrong that is. Stupid people, like me, will think that it is something wrong, delete it and have problems. An easy way to prevent this stupidity is to remove the *.exe part. This stupidity can be easily prevented by changing the name. However this asks for a change of mindset of people who think that a user should not mess with his own system and are pretty stuborn in that point of view. No matter how technically it is all correct, it is still wrong. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau