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Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development |
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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:24:40 +0300 |
> From: Teemu Likonen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:02:20 +0300
>
> Eli Zaretskii [2013-04-02 19:38:26 +0300] wrote:
>
> > From: Teemu Likonen <address@hidden>
> >> I think Git is liked so much because it gives a lot of power to user.
> >> There was this time when the "Git opposition" had some/many
> >> philosophical reason why a DVCS software shouldn't allow user do
> >> various things. From certain point of view they can be right but
> >> users chose Git anyway because it has the functionality that they
> >> want.
> >
> > If it were that simple, Emacs would have been much more popular editor
> > than it is now. Yet, somehow that didn't quite happen. Perhaps "a lot
> > of power" is not the single most important reason, after all.
>
> Yes, and the other in my message was "the functionality that they
> [users] want." Meaning features that matter.
So you are saying Emacs doesn't have "the functionality that they
[users] want"?
> In his retrospective Velmer Vernooij said:
>
> We lost sight of what mattered for our users, focusing on features
> that were nice but perhaps not as necessary as we thought. We
> overengineered. We didn't get rid of the crufty unnecessary
> features. It's harder to comprehend, contribute to or fix
> performance issues in a large layered codebase. And the larger a
> codebase becomes, the larger the surface for bugs, the harder it is
> to refactor.
>
> http://stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospective.html
I don't think Velmer was talking about git.
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