Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: 2 Jan 2025 20:04:28 GMT
Lines: 35
Message-ID: <lto9qbFso18U3@mid.individual.net>
References: <vkjmdg$30kff$1@dont-email.me>
	<1814c96a2531ed89$71164$2566989$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>
	<441smjp44l5o2ja4c1vlsv32oh2j6m9n4j@4ax.com>
	<CoubP.49797$DPl.41452@fx13.iad>
	<pan$4da7a$f7b58970$926e1064$15cef996@linux.rocks>
	<4f7tmjplbte7cnuh2pqrh1fufs4iatv3fd@4ax.com>
	<f6GcnYUuyu7qFfL6nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@earthlink.com>
	<ubb0nj5ioc4r3gbqhmmiprdejtefj1j6mm@4ax.com> <67707879@news.ausics.net>
	<edc3cd22-5cbb-bb81-70e4-321c53d62162@example.net>
	<VibcP.22228$VnJ1.12797@fx44.iad>
	<a092fd3e-df3f-6c16-fc67-50321ba67dd1@example.net>
	<YNycP.37866$vfee.30336@fx45.iad>
	<366b4ad1-4849-d7a9-cade-67d1eba035c3@example.net>
	<gJScP.13176$XfF8.10959@fx04.iad> <FEYcP.131275$aTp4.70494@fx09.iad>
	<35a09fa5-08b1-8121-51c7-28d3aac1cd0f@example.net>
	<CaidP.24348$DPp5.20979@fx01.iad>
	<3002e7b9-095e-c292-1202-b151f7776587@example.net>
	<ltmbcmFjcgpU1@mid.individual.net>
	<ba6263f8-1e7f-5eb1-ae06-757f2ed7a018@example.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: individual.net QC3wni9QK8Nx6cnANPUnZwcwag89I+5UqQtMSBm1Wki72NHMvD
Cancel-Lock: sha1:nNU+nWatN67uvB3darT44GNndT0= sha256:Bl1x+KmYH8WUD2LUkZHHuspoJ7Sky02he/X0wWaLU/4=
User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba)
Bytes: 2886

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:30:14 +0100, D wrote:


> Postgres is interesting. It's old, but doesn't get mentioned a lot these
> days. Would you say their engineering culture is something to study?

Are you kidding? 

https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgres-most-admired-database-in-stack-
overflow-2023

https://www.timescale.com/blog/postgres-for-everything

What is important to me is the PostGIS add-on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostGIS

SQLite has a similar extension:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpatiaLite

> I've heard that many people do not like the python 2 to 3 debacle, and
> that python is becoming worse from a governance perspective. I've heard
> the woke mind virus has settled deep within the python project.

The backward incompatibility did put people off.  Up until ArcGIS 11.x 
Esri's ArcPy tools were based on Python 2.7 so my scripts needed to be 
updated. However 10.7 was the end of the line for the 32-bit Esri tools 
along with 2.7 Python so everything changed with 11. 

https://policies.python.org/python.org/code-of-conduct/

What isn't 'woke' these days? The language is over the top but does the 
end result really differ from civilized behavior in the workplace?