On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:26:22PM -0400, JohnS wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:45 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > > R P Herrold wrote: > > > > > oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than > > > hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL > > > maintainers who move on is a problem in all of FOSS > > > > Quality is implied by the hefty QA process debian goes > > through, and the long release cycles. I thought I had > > communicated that in the previous message. The last two > > major releases took almost 2 years of work each. Similar > > to the QA that Red Hat does, which is why their base packages > > are solid and well tested. This same level of QA of course > > doesn't apply to 3rd party repos. > > > > > and so R-2.9.0 is not available to you, and if your users > > > wanted R-xts, to extend zoo [which extends R], the only > > place > > > for those packages in Debian packaging are r-forge and CRAN > > > (as they are not in any 'official' Debian archive, and only > > > in the independents). > > > > The users will have to make do with what there is. The same > > is true for CentOS/RHEL on my systems. I can't remember the > > last time I went to CPAN. I did maintain a couple dozen ruby > > on rails packages at my last company for the systems there, > > everything built by hand, it wasn't easy, or fun. > > > > For what it's worth, I like both CentOS and Debian. (Heck, I even like > > openSUSE as an OS, but I'm not crazy about Novel's smooching with > > Microsoft.) > --- > Not crazy about smooching huh? Ever bother to really research the facts? > RedHat and MS are parteners! In the Virtualization area and more. Speaking of researching the facts, I suggest you do the same. RedHat's "partnership" with MS most specifically does NOT include any kind of patent licensing crap. The contortions MS/Novell had to go thru in their agreement to try to squeeze into a tiny loophole in the GPL2 are the really objectional parts. The "obey the letter but not the spirit" of the GPL nonsense stinks to high heaven. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 ------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090429/1d8baedd/attachment-0005.sig>