Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from March 2023
Hi there, On Tue, 28 Feb 2023, Karen Etheridge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:01 AM G.W. Haywood via perl5-porters wrote: > >> >> ... because of my pathological aversion >> to github (and github's aversion to my browser), I simply won't do it. > > Why not? Why can't you do: > > git clone https://github.com/Perl/perl5.git Can you remember ADSL? I *can* do it, but I won't. Last time I supplied a ten-character patch to the documentation for an open source project (ClamAV) for example, to do it I had to transfer about 20 megabytes of data. I could have done the same thing with a 500 byte email in a fraction of the time, but there's no facility to do that. It's insane. > What does your browser have to do with anything? Just that if I want to use it to look at anything that's been going on in a project, either I get a message telling me to, er, update to a supported browser (a euphemism, it means junk the one I'm used to and get another one) or at best a little twirly thing. It's like a whole planet has completely forgotten the point of HTML. And don't get me started on the bowdlerization of patches by text-to-HTML conversion. </rant:you did ask> -- 73, Ged.Thread Previous | Thread Next