On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:57:50 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:29 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > | The question was specifically in regards to timelines; completion | > | so that ongoing paludis vs pkgcore vs portage crap can be put to | > | rest. | > | > *shrug* I don't see PMS as being viable until there's a fully | > conformant independent implementation, personally. So that more or | > less means that for me, PMS will become a priority at around the | > same time that Paludis 1.0_pre is released. | | Are you really saying that you won't be releasing this information | until such time as *Paludis* meets it, even though portage/pkgcore | may not? Isn't the *point* of this spec to try to bring everyone on | the same page?
I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, the specification is worthless and will contain huge numbers of errors. This is standard practice for professional standards, and is the principal difference between, say, Open Document Format and Office Open XML -- the former is a real standard, whereas the latter is a description of how one program operates. Now, if PMS happens to end up being ready before Paludis 1.0, PMS will get released before then. But if Paludis 1.0 ends up being ready before PMS, my and probably others' priorities will switch to getting PMS ready as quickly as sanely possible. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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