On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:00, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Donnerstag 08 März 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
How many openSUSE users you think might require it? I'd go for 5 to 10. We're currently trying to get such packages out of the product everyone has to download and put them in opensuse buildservice repositories. And if you haven't yet, I suggest you get an account to upload the package.
Do you really think there are only 5 or 10 programmers using openSUSE?
Hmm, you want to tell me every programmer needs cvsgraph? I wonder how I managed to program so far without it.
I don't know. Give it a try.
CVS and Subversion are the most widely used open-source version control / source code management systems and both are included in openSUSE. Many users of one or both of these also use ViewVC or ViewCVS. This is also included. There's one missing piece: cvsgraph (optional support for which is built into ViewVC). I believe there's a large number of people who would like to have the additional functionality provided by it and that the complete set of related packages should be included.
But what are the criteria for inclusion? What percent of the users must use a package to get it included?
If you start with this offhand "I don't need it and don't see why more than a handful of users would" justification for excluding packages (explicitly requested packages, no less), then where does it end? With an operating system release with no more application software than MS Windows? Of course not, but I'd strongly prefer continuing in the other direction--"all comers welcome."
Thank you for support. That's exactly my point of view. -- Regards Andreas Vetter