DSSS, Dsource, and cpan

[John Reimer]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:31:59 -0400, Brad Anderson wrote:

> John Reimer wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:36:05 -0700, Gregor Richards wrote:
>> 
>>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>> This was one of the primary motivations for the Tango team "asking" 
>>>> Gregor to include download support early on.  I personally feel that 
>>>> this will be the way most libraries should/will be distributed.
>>>>
>>> ... in what universe did the Tango team ask for this? You'd think if the 
>>> Tango team was behind it initially, tango would be net-installable via 
>>> DSSS. And yet, it's not :P
>>>
>>>   - Gregor Richards
>>>
>>> PS: The reason Tango is not net-installable is because of my do-no-harm 
>>> philosophy of net-installs. You should not install something, then find 
>>> that your arbitrary project using Phobos fails for reasons mysterious to 
>>> you.
>> 
>> 
>> Gregor, I think the it was clear that the Tango Team had a "guarded"
>> interest in DSSS, early on.  I had plenty of discussions with you about
>> DSSS.
>> 
>> But, unless I missed a discussion behind the scenes (quite possible),
>> Gregor is right that there was never a formal acceptance of DSSS. The
>> reason was clear, as I remember discussing the situation: DSSS/rebuild was
>> buggy and unproven, a fact that made it a precarious choice for promoting
>> Tango installations during its early stages where first impressions were
>> crucial (alas, we still had lots of troubles despite that :P ). For
>> myself, I didn't want to see Tango using DSSS until it could be proven to
>> work flawlessly. I think DSSS is almost there and should, once again, be
>> formally tested for release with Tango as an appropriate installation
>> option.  However, I'm still somewhat guarded in seeing it as a primary
>> installation option, at this point.  
>> 
>> -JJR
> 
> From the beginning, I took GregorR's comments as jest, and his P.S. covered
> the issue.  Maybe I missed something, but I thought the entire thing was innocent.
> 
> BA


Call me gullible, but I'm not always aware of when Gregor is joking or not;
even given his PS, I don't quite get it :-(.  I honestly thought that even
with a hint of a joke that there was a valid complaint.

-JJR