Am Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2008 21:12:41 schrieb John Andersen:
Sven Burmeister wrote:
Where are those "many"? Every xth person that uses software can also develop software or at least maintain it.
Perhaps true for some extremely large value of X.
Perhaps not.
"At least" maintain it?
It takes far greater skill to maintain software than to develop it. After all, KDE is proof of this. The kde team couldn't maintain their own code and decided to flush it all and start over.
You mistake two things. Maintain means, just keep it running, you do not need a lot of manpower to do that, you just have to make sure it compiles, which certainly needs less than creating a new KDE or adding new features. Since KDE3 has all it needs, that should not be necessary. The reason why KDE4 was kind of a rewrite is partly due to Qt3 vs. Qt4 and because one wanted to add new things and do some things differently. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org