From: Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@...>
Date: 2008-02-17T20:57:12+09:00
Subject: Re: TRAC - Trac, Project Leads, Python, and Mr. Noah Kantrow

Marc Heiler wrote:
> Wow... I dont like python much as a language. I respect it though 
> because it did away with the ugly line noise of perl. (But ruby did a 
> lot better).
> 
> However, there is one huge reason why trac became so popular - there is 
> a DEMAND for these applications.
> 
> The very same happened with Mantis. It didnt have much in the beginning, 
> but it was (and is) constantly growing.
> 
> At one point it hardly matters how messy something is, as long as people 
> drive it forward - take phpbb3 for example.
> 
> I'd wish ruby would jump in but this all takes a little bit of effort 
> after effort, and there is no point at all in writing so much about a 
> project YOU dislike. I couldnt even stop writing what I dislike ... like 
> all the various perl scripts bundled in countless software apps - they 
> should be ruby scripts instead. :)
> 
> But as long as people all agree that the www has become incredibly 
> important, i am fine. Because the drive-on seems to steered in the right 
> direction.
well you can always use redmine :P