Re: Need for launchpad

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Roland Mas 

|   I don't see why the "poor oppressed non-elite" should have tools
| they find easy to use and the "arrogant elite" shouldn't.  If my
| not-quite-geek sister wants to use her web browser to translate stuff,
| I don't see why she should be prevented from doing that, but then if
| I, as an arrogant bastard, want to use my ~/bin-full of ugly shell,
| Perl and awk scripts, why should I not be allowed to?

AIUI, launchpad is going to be accessible through XML-RPC which will
make it possible to write decent command line interfaces working with
it.  It will obviously be slower than accessing data on local hard
drives, but it should, hopefully, be fully-functional.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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