On 30 Mar 2004 22:00:02 -0800, hatespyware / yahoo.com (anon luker)
wrote (more or less):

>Under what
>circumstances would mutiny be a better choice than forking?  I would
>generally rather see projects removed than usurped.

Most circumstances, imo.

Teh thing about libraries is that they become known due to reputation,
which tends to spread through both w.o.m. and personal experience.

Both of these can have significant latencies inherent in them.

(Again imo) Ruby does best when the community gathers around canonical
libraries for given purposes.

Surely that's better than having a given purpose spawn a dozen equally
feature-incomplete, dormant libraries.



Cheers, 
   Euan
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