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Chandler 0.1 Released
kolchak writes "Very promising news is Chandler 0.1 (the Open Source PIM) has finally been released. 'While we are still very early in the design and
implementation process, we intend for this 0.1 release to make us a more
fully open project. We have made the release available for download,
opened up our bug tracking database, and opened our source code
repository.'" This is Mitch Kapor's attempt to offer an alternative to Microsoft Outlook, especially to small (under 100-person) organizations, last mentioned in December.
Why, of all things, Python? I know it appeals to many developers because of the "cleaner" OO implementation. But if all you care about is a cleaner OO, go for Ruby, for godness' sake. Besides lacking that horrible whitespace-is-relevant feature, Ruby is not as slow at Python when it comes to loading the programs and it does not chew away dozens of megabytes of RAM just because.
... put together. That gives you a nuch better cross section, the chances that someone will look at your project and send fixes and patches are much better
*That* said, why do you go for scripting language instead of a compiled one? With a compiled one, your runtime environment is just a bunch of libraries (libc and perhaps libstdc++), instead of the whole fscking baggage of interpreter plus lots of little tiny components. It's orders of magnitude easier to maintain and deploy.
And it has another benefit: the number of _competent_ C and C++ programmers is much larger than the number of competent Python and Ruby and Java and Perl and
Yea, one of these days the developers will realize that if they all worked together on the same project rather than everyone and his brother working on his own, they might actually get somewhere.
Yup, and that means it sucks equally on all platforms.
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I downloaded this 14MB file and was excited to see it. I opened it up and began thinking about how miserable it looked and performed. I fully understand this is a .1 release however, in the commercial world .1 releases are usually internal developer only builds. This is what the majority of the world is used to. Even developers grumble when they see tubby and slow applications even at .1 releases.
Well, this ain't the commercial world. If that's what you want then dump Linux, load up Win2000, and stop yer whining. If it pains you to see a 0.1 release, *then don't download it*. But implying that it shouldn't be released, or that it shouldn't be available to those who do want to check it out is something you don't have any business saying. It's rather apparent by your statements that you've missed the entire point of open source software altogether.
Like I said, if it isn't for you don't use it. Period.
OS X took all of these problems and simply focused on providing one distribution, that had one window manager and no requirement for compiling code to get functionality. Open source OS's need to do the same.
No, they don't. If that's what you want then Linux isn't for you. Keep on using Windows, or OS X, or whatever makes your little heart quiver with joy. But in terms of OSS it's clear you don't have the first fucking clue.
It really isn't for you. At all.
Max
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