[csw-users] Submitting an ncmpc package

[Dennis Clarke]

> Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
>> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>>> Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
>>>>

>>>> Love it or hate it, this is blastwave.
>>> Please allow me to add one last point.
>>>
>>>   9) things have worked like this year after year after year and it may
>>>      be conservative, somewhat self critical and overly careful
>>>
>>>                          * but it works *
>>>
>>> We have been discussing the issues behind closed doors for some time now
>>> and
>>> we will probably come up with a way to accomodate people better.  If we
>>> can.
>>
>> Just by doing more stuff in public (like Sun is trying to) would be
>> super great for people trying to get involved. Sometimes people would
>> like to contribute more than actual packages, like documentation, plain
>> testing or hardware. Currently that is something that is hard at
>> blastwave as "getting in touch" seem hard (it might not be the case, but
>> it is not as inviting as other organizations).

Well, you are quite right of course.

Right now we are having a fascinating discussion on optimization and on
creating binaries for specific processor targets. I have built the new gzip
package ( which I'll finish shortly ) as well as GCC 4.2.1 ( which is
running its testsuite ) and there are benefits to tweaking the xarch flags
for pentium_pro as well as pentium_pro+mmx or whatever.  There is a vast
arrya of talent in here and this is one discussion where I wish we moved it
out to the users list.  Everyone would benefit from it I think.

> That said, there are of course many reasons to have private lists, but
> it is a matter of which list the message should go to by default.

I guess no one wants to see the package maintainers yakking about how to
tweak out the last bit of performance or about why 64-bit can sometimes be
evil.  That sort of thing ?  :-)

Dennis