Comments on: Solving underlying issues

By: James Frazer

James Frazer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:30:36 +0000

I have a few days before I have to start permanent work again… if I get some time I’ll see if I can come up with some sanity for the website. Maybe some kind of simple reorganizational mockup. I’m stressing simple, effective, and evolutionary, otherwise I don’t think it will get done.

By: justin

justin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:38:25 +0000

James – I completely agree with you, especially about the website.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:00:41 +0000

One of the things I liked about NeXTStep was that you could have multiple versions of a framework ( read library ) installed and used concurrently, which was really nice when different apps depended on different versions of the same framework.

By: James Frazer

James Frazer — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:01:27 +0000

I’m not sure I’d compare apt-get with portupgrade. In my experiences, portupgrade works good for small things that aren’t important — because if it tanks it leaves you with something you have to clean up yourself… maybe that’s changed, to be honest I haven’t used it in two years, and stopped using it after it left me with a crippled system for the third time.

Apt-get isn’t perfect, but it’s done numerous complete system updates for me, including all the complicated gnome stuff, and it’s never left me stranded. However, that being said I really think the BSD community can do a lot better.

As for the DragonflyBSD website — I think it could use some major simplification and some organization. There seem to be a lot of individual sections that could be compressed into one section. Also the whole dragonfly them has maybe been taken a step to far — the site feels like a nature conservation website. This is of course just my own subjective opinion, and isn’t worth much until I create something better myself.