From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/ Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:28:28 -0700 Message-ID: <7vli6lu65v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vtxld30f2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7va9n52zjc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra , Johannes Schindelin , Greg Troxel , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Jonathan Nieder , Thomas Rast , =?utf-8?Q?Ren?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9?= Scharfe , Michael Haggerty , =?utf-8?B?Tmd1ecKtbiBUaMOhaSBOZ8O3Yw==?= Duy , Felipe Contreras , Ramsay Jones , Erik Faye-Lund , Johannes Sixt To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 07 20:28:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul1Ov-0003OH-Fj for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:28:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756043Ab3FGS2d (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:33 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:38283 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754298Ab3FGS2c (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E05A2659D; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:28:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=O0cdnhEE5k129pseBjXcsazRXU4=; b=pekOHv 5lGyTqvDr57CuSzy72k8A4xOWDxhBuN4Io7jll6VBwJCP40zuIryQhF6o5rZFbwe TRUdun+4xD+bkBh5bSFFdrTRK+gAGZc+E19bMu33bVrd1dhQxmVE4q9m8n0o5dyc tx7E8THJ8kwf2nPpyueubxfhYoeeg77buXe8k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=g0cbeKDJGetOjwhUwdzVEA/4M2gjK5pZ ON1PTfIL6oHxd1JWve6xpVpjw/IAzlOQJhMBN13cz2iz//K84R2sJm8KNMKRrUH8 AsOKWMDi9oA/i9t2j4PuCgPxlxSvFYVuKmXjPBxtRkG5BrEP8WYcpCXT2/kqafga s4niRw9YnJA= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC9B2659C; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [50.161.4.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6ACC726595; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:28:30 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Matthieu Moy's message of "Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:57:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 0DA6C3CA-CFA0-11E2-A209-E56BAAC0D69C-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy writes: > The POSIX guys shouldn't move faster than the Windows guys can follow. That is a very good summary. It does not mean everybody must always crawl at the same pace as the slowest people. But it is one of the important things we should consider, when we have choices to make (e.g. "do we write this in Python", "do we write it using this Perl module we haven't depended on", etc.), to pick the one that does not make others work harder than necessary---it affects the trade-offs.