[rtg] 0.74 vs. 0.81

[bill fumerola]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:31:03PM -0400, Steve Scaffidi wrote:
> On 5/25/06, bill fumerola <billf at mu.org> wrote:
> >i'd rather see the rtg development model improve rather than fork. yrtg
> >was as close to a fork as i wanted to get. community support should just
> >be that. if you think i'm surly now, envision me getting 20 individual
> >mails about "my" version/patch of rtg all with the same question or
> >having two or three "rtg mailing lists" none of which are related or
> >share archives and having to answer questions on all of them. and so on.
> 
> Good point.  Admittedly, I set up a sourceforge site simply because I
> could...  But after thinking about the possibilities for putting rtg to
> work, I came up with an idea to collect some of the best stuff and offer a
> simplified/streamlined process to set it up and use it. Something a
> pointy-haired boss could like.

i don't really see a problem with seperating any one or more of the
poller, grapher, or any/all of the supporting utilities into seperate
projects. my problem is with having multiple versions of any of them
except for branched versions within the same tree.

-- bill