Hi John,

On 23 August 2013 00:36, John <phoenixoverride@gmail.com> wrote:

The final straw was when I just converted to Git and discovered that he is trying to run executables.

I think most of us agree using patch.exe was not the best decision. However, creating a way to install dependencies locally, which also works well for windows users - unfortunately, virtualenv and others don't work too well for some windows workflows, I think was a sensible idea.

This is bloatware plain and simple I have seen the number of externals go from 2 to 17. Most of these are probably for one or two pet programs that should never have been added to the project as they are niche programs.

I don't agree on this - the number of externals that /can be installed/ has increased, but the only one required is BeautifulSoup. This is not different from how things were before. Thanks to the new packaging system, you are only asked to install them when required. Yes, they are typically for one or two scripts, but calling them 'pet programs' is just nonsense - the scripts DrTrigon has added (e.g. sum_disc/discussion summaries, subster/dynamic page updating from an external source, catimages/smart(er) image categorization based on content) are useful tools, even though Dr Trigon might be the only one running them at the moment.

I would really like to see things streamlined and all of the cruft removed and get back to the nice library that we had.

Apart from the patch.exe issue, I', not really sure what there is to streamline - the extra externals are only installed on demand and the new scripts are not in the way of using other scripts.

Merlijn