[Coco] Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior

[Aaron Wolfe]

Sounds good to me.  Thank you and again I apologize for being negative.
The idea of a central place for coco stuff is good.  We just need to make
sure the users get the best information.
 On May 26, 2014 8:38 PM, "Guillaume Major" <gmajor at videotron.ca> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
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>
>  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/F98K4Iw
>> w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>>  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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