Faré fahree@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Zach Beane xach@xach.com wrote:
Faré fahree@gmail.com writes:
Once it's accepted that ASDF will enforce the syntax variables decided
This seems more like an "if" than a "once" to me.
Then please argue that. I for one fully agree that the big question is not about the specific defaults chosen by Dan Barlow and me in the past, and possibly Robert Goldman in the future, but about whether ASDF should provide a default that system author can rely upon.
Will you argue against ASDF letting the system author fully control the file type of source files, rather than it depending on a global variable?
Will you argue against ADSF letting the system author fully control the encoding of source files, rather than it depending on a global variable?
Will you argue against ADSF letting the system author fully control the syntax of source files, rather than it depending on a global variable?
And since you're fond of C analogies: should gcc determine the syntax it uses to compile a file based on an environment variable or on information fully determined by the software author in his Makefile?
That's the high-order bit question. Let's argue it, with more than an ad hominem attack.
I do not want to see a system that relies on personal intercession to reduce the friction introduced by the things it breaks. Even if those things are not open source or free software projects, even if they use dirty, unhygienic techniques, even if they did not report promptly to you when a problem arose, even if they do not want your help, I do not think they deserve to lose.
If there is no clear way to get the effects you want without breaking code that works today, I would prefer nothing be done until such a solution is clearer.
Zach