Comments on: That is crack

By: Lion Kimbro

Lion Kimbro — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:57:09 +0000

Yeah. If you're going to say that something that doesn't exist will be better than something that currently works, you have to be sort of serruptitious about it. For example, the PyPy folk claim that PyPy (Python in Python) is going to be faster than C Python! Only, they don't. They just say: "Rumors have it that the secret goal is being faster-than-C which is nonsense, isn't it?" ... see? That way, and perhaps some special insiders charm, will put you in a situation where developers will applaud you, and say, "It's going to be faster than what is ther! (maybe)" Rather than all the negative energy you are getting, which is going to be a major drain on your project now, you'd have positive energy, and you'd be soaring to hights of ecstatic developmental bliss. It seems to have worked for PyP, at least... We now return you to stop energy...

By: J5

J5 — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:28:27 +0000

For future refrence if you don’t want to sound crackful:

1) refrain from saying something that doesn’t exist will be better than something that currently works – “Serve as a freedesktop replacement for the crappy E-D-S framework”

2) Refrain from implying it will be some sort of generic solution

3) Refrain from making assumtions “I am gonna write all the above myself and from a performance point of view I doubt any other backend will match it for speed”

The mail just reads as one big, “I know better than anyone else so my project is gona kick ass and solve everyones problems”. It is noise, it is vaporware, it is crack. Go write code and come back when you have it and then tell us what it does not what it is going to do.

By: jamie mccracken

jamie mccracken — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:42:29 +0000

I hope its not crack.

Let me clarify:

DDS (desktop data server) is a dbus wrapper around an embedd database and thats all it is!

Yes it will contain backend tables for various uses and as I said in that email it can have a number of uses. It is not a big massive daemon for doing everything – its a tiny multithreaded daemon for DB access only.