Re: vancouver revisited
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:04:11AM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:00:07AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:53:37PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> > > > Claiming "nobody sane will ever use that" means someone who's actually
> > > > interested in using said software, even if it's slow is left out in the
> > > > cold. That's silly.
> > >
> > > The user can always ask to build it or provide resources to build it.
> >
> > Rotfl.
> >
> > Imagine:
> >
> > You have one m68k machine, and want to use it as a lightweight browsing
> > machine (yes, some people do that). To have a browser, however, you'll
> > need to let it run for >24 hours because the browser isn't compiled...
> > and then you end up with mozilla, but you prefer a lightweight browser,
> > such as galeon. Add another bunch of hours.
>
> Galeon is by no means a lightweight browser. If you want a lightweight
> browser look at dillo or the GPE mini browser.
Whatever.
The point is that not compiling software because it takes too long is
not a solution; all you do is to move the problem from the developer to
the user, and you add some on top of that. Not very nice.
--
The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the
pavement is precisely one bananosecond
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