On 11/24/2014 09:16 AM, Max Rydahl
Andersen wrote:
If it is not available in Mars we can't really depend on it
without we start bundling it and then we own the maintaence of
It risking others will bundle other versions and we'll be
incompatible. It is bad enough there now are multiple terminals,
but multiple ways to define and connect to remote hosts for file
transferring. That would be a mess.
Why not simply contributing to the project in case we have things to
contribute? I don't understand why being in Mars/not being in Mars
makes a difference about how to contribute to this project and how
much we can rely on it.
It's just that current contibutors are resigning from this project,
it doesn't require anyone to fork it.
So sure, there are hacks for bundling this in. None of them
are sustainable if the project is looking for termination.
If we don't want project to terminate, and if multiple people need
it, then it's up to its adopters (including us) to affirm that we
are ready to make the necessary efforts to provide and review
patches to keep the project somehow alive. Given the maturity of the
project, it shouldn't represent too much work to keep it alive.
Things will be a mess only if we let them be a mess, but just not
changing anything to current state of the project would be enough to
avoid that mess.
However, if there is a better replacement, it may be a good time to
use the better one; but if there is not, then we should IMO step up
and say that we don't want project to terminate.
why are we using their dedicated repo and not the release
train as we do for other things ? To get source for Dev to or?
Yes, I think so, on Rob's request.