[TxMt] Re: C Library bundle MONSTER

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 11:16 AM, William D. Neumann wrote:

> If it's so trivial a program, why didn't you just write those 10  
> lines of Ruby instead of the 36 lines of response to my email?

Because as I already said, I have already written these 10 lines of  
Ruby, and the code is in the LaTeX bundle. I have no interest  
whatsoever in C, so this would be better done by the original bundle  
poster, or someone else with some use for it. Responding to this  
email however, and discussing the presence of this bundle as it  
stands, is of interest to me.
And it would take a bit longer to write than the 36 lines of the  
response, it is still 10 lines of code, that need testing etc.

> Anyway, it's no skin off my nose if the bundle gets deleted or  
> not.  I've probably written 100 lines of C in the entire year.  But  
> what I do have a problem with is the seemingly single-handed  
> decision (well, now I guess it's triple handed or so)

This is the opinion of at least five of the top 10 committers to the  
repository, I wouldn't call it exactly "single-handed". and so far we  
have only heard one opinion against removing it. I would say the  
majority of the committers who have expressed an opinion on the  
matter is in favor of removing the bundle in its present form, and as  
you can see from the other thread an effort for something better and  
greater has already started.

> to delete someone else's bundle without a compelling reason.  If  
> that's what Alan wants that's fine -- it's his playground and his  
> ball.  But it doesn't sit right when it's the intramural squad that  
> wants to take down the nets.

Since Allan is on vacation at the moment, we'll have to wait a couple  
of weeks to find out what his views are. But I can tell you that he  
is very much against large menus and menus with more than two levels  
deep. This is one of the reasons the LaTeX bundle doesn't have 1500  
snippets for all sorts of text, Allan wouldn't even hear of  
cluttering the bundle in that way.

> William D. Neumann

Haris