Re: helping the user is not an error

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: helping the user is not an error
Date: 19:32 on 23 May 2006
* jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx <jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-05-23 19:25]:
> I suppose BMPX is a restart of the project?

Yes, BMPx is "we gave up trying but we're reusing the same name
for a completely different project anyway because we're the same
developer team."

> I'd know better, but the bmpx page has this for content:
> 
>  Fatal error: Call to undefined method Sanitizer::escapeid() in
>  /data/www/bmpx/bmpx/includes/Parser.php on line 3153
> 
> Woohoo, I have a lot of confidence in this software.

Besides looking unprofessional, what does the quality of the CMS
really have to do with the quality of the software, tho?

> Why do people insist on generating front pages to sites
> dynamically with php tinkertoys? HATE.

It's a pretty vanilla Mediawiki installation. It worked an hour
ago when I went there.

> I'm in semiregular contact with one of the developers working
> on Audacious, _yet another_ branch of xmms.

Actually, Audacious started out as a continuation of the old,
abandoned BMP codebase (aka BMP Classic) -- you know, "*we* want
to continue trying, but we'll use a different name for the same
project because we're *not* the same developer team."

Are you confused yet?

What really sucks is that everyone and their mother is now using
Gstreamer. I sure hope that Gstreamer stops sucking, and soon,
because else I'll never get away from BMP Classic. if there's one
thing that the XMMS codebase has going for it, it's that it
doesn't rely on a sprawling monster of an overengineered
dependency to play a bit of music.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
There's stuff above here

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