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Re: Pattern
by illissius on Monday 30/Oct/2006, @05:33

"This is probably a good thing."

Not necessarily. It's both good and bad. Look at it as a solution to a problem. The problem is the developers don't agree about the proper way forward. This is not good; it would be better if there were consensus about the correct path to take, and everyone's efforts could be unified towards a single goal, which would then be attained faster. But they don't agree, so the solution is that each of them tries his or her preferred method separately. This is good: eventually, we will find out which of them was right. (Could be both).

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Re: Pattern
by Gato on Monday 30/Oct/2006, @06:16

> it would be better if there were consensus about the correct path to take

Right, as long as the path is really the correct one. But some paths have subtle flaws that will only be revealed by experience. And sometimes none of the paths is the correct one, because the competing solutions are not really solutions to the same problem, they are solutions to similar problems.

Sometimes the developers are not compatible themselves, and they can't form a single team, so they do the next best thing and form two teams.

It's not really a reason to get alarmed. However if none of the alternatives ends up really good, then you do have a real problem - and then it might be time to sacrifice diversity and emphasize sameness.

What's important is letting things evolve instead of getting dogmatic.

Oh and it's also important to ship just one of the alternatives with stock KDE, and perhaps make it easy for distributions to replace it with their choice. And icecream. And an end to bugs ;-)

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