[Coco] Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior

Guillaume Major gmajor at videotron.ca
Mon May 26 20:36:30 EDT 2014



Hi Aaron,

I understand your frustration about this issue. You work very hard to 
develop wonderful software for the coco and you put a lot of efforts to 
write good documentation. DriveWire and NitrOS-9 are in constant evolution 
and can cause some users to use old or obsolete versions.

I think the best solution to this problem, as others have suggested, is to 
add a section in the archive to list the active projects and provide links 
to their respective web sites. The developper's web site will get more 
visibility and the end user will always have access to the latest version.

In the meantime, I will remove DriveWire, Nitros-9 and LWTools from the 
repository until it can be re-added to the new section.

Guillaume


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
<coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior


> I've been thinking that I should apologize for the negative or frustrated
> tone of my previous messages.  I think its a great site and I second or
> third the notion that its well done and very useful.
>
> The frustration in my messages is due to problems that have long plagued 
> my
> efforts to provide software to the community and probably not deserved in
> this case.  I do hope you will consider linking to active projects 
> official
> sites as an alternative way to serve the community.
> On May 25, 2014 10:26 PM, 
> <nickma2-sFbbPxZDHXw0n/F98K4Iww at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> I am in agreement with Aaron although I can see merit in what the
>> others are saying but it can be confusing for newcomers.
>>
>> The repository is an excellent site and bravo to Guillaume for setting
>> up and maintaining it, but I do think only software that is not active
>> and doesn't have an official support site be placed in the repository.
>>
>> Maybe a separate page on the repository with links to this software is
>> all that is needed?
>>
>> Nick
>>
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