Re: Mercurial, I quit.

USPS?

peter

On Feb 28, 2013, at 6:33 PM, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:

> Gentlemen,
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> Under most circumstances, I would attempt to talk Pat down off his tree and/or help him through his challenges.  However, I fully appreciate his struggles with that arcane and overly complicated piece of software.  I concur with his statement that it is also overkill for our needs.
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> Surely we can arrange some way for Pat to provide his document without hg.  Suggestions?
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> Regards,
> Dave
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> On Feb 28, 2013, at 21:18, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote:
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>> I am sorry, RDF WG. I have better things to do with the remainder of my life than waste it wrestling with gnomic, incomprehensible, brain-damaged software whose only apparent purpose is to prevent someone sending an HTML file from one place to another over the internet. 
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>> As far as I can see, none of the claimed functionality of distributed revision control is of the slightest importance to our work here, so why are we using one? 
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>> Let me propose that we find some other way for editors to make drafts public, preferably one that is simple and straightforward. When some workable means is available, let me know and I will send y'all the new draft of Semantics. 
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>> Pat
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