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Subject: Re: Why should we help ? (was How to compile Fruit 2.1)

Author: Andrey Popov

Date: 06:53:39 06/22/05

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On June 22, 2005 at 09:05:32, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:

>On June 22, 2005 at 07:36:50, Andrey Popov wrote:
>
>>>There is really no reason why you should compile fruit.
>>There are many things that somebody wants to change and experiment with. Only
>>some of them are tunable via UCI options. I also wonder which of five novations
>>in 2.1 after 2.0 is responsible for such huge improvement. I want to turn off
>>them one by one and compare. There are no options in Fruit 2.1 to do it.
>>>
>>>All other things/reasons looks not so happy for me.
>>I suspect you think about yet another clone ;)
>>I think nobody who reads CCC will produce new clones,
>>because there is already no fun (he will not be the first guy who made a clone)
>>and there are no chances to hide it.
>
>Thats a little bit more complicated. If the users see that we're helping each
>user  may more and more users starting request. You really don't know the
>reasons of each user why they are want this. You can't control this too and may
>become more problems. Clones are one point yes, but the list is long.
>
>So we need a general hard line to handle it fair for all. Otherwise a user could
>say "You helped Mr. X, why not me ?" And so on.
>
>So my opinion is all should get the same support, here specialy no support.
>
>daniel

It seems you are right in general, but there are some things I do not agree.
In any case, it is too late. I have already got support.



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