The Linux engine...

[Graham Samuel]

Just a quick two Eurocents to say that I strongly agree that we should not split up the list, and I agree with Malte's arguments. I know nothing about Linux, and like many things I know nothing about, I'm scared of it - but one day I may need to know more and if and when that happens I would want to see it in the context of what I do know, which is LC on Mac and Windows. In fact right now I am trying to write iOS apps, and everything I'm doing is starting from the base I know, Mac and Windows. If there were a separate iOS list, I would still be reading the other lists in order to try to keep up and to look for meaningful differences between the different LC engines.


On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:25:19 +01006, Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de> wrote:

> Thanks for all who chimed in, especially Richard for the very detailed post.
> 
> A few thoughts on Joes suggestion first... 
> I do not think it would be a good idea to split the list into platform specific ones. We would all use a lot of expertise, as if the lists are devided people will tend to only subscribe to the list containing the platform they are using. This could be handled easier in the forum (well, not the current one, as that is not really accepted by the community and while I am one of those who prefers reading forums (and this list online for that matter) I can understand people who do not. If we were to split the lists, people would also post their general questions (and answers to those) to the platform specific lists, so in the end we would all loose knowlege. Maybe it would be easier for those who do not want to hear about iOs or Linux or Windows or Mac to set up a filter rule in their email client...