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Just a very quick note to say that developement for Obliterate is ongoing and is going well.

Julian Foad blogged about his progress here:

http://subversion.wandisco.com/component/content/article/1/36.html

He’s also been updating our wiki here:

http://subversion.wandisco.com/wiki/index.php/Obliterate

Cheers,
James Bailey

For one, you are assuming knowledge of the past is irrelevant, not worthy of our attention. Sorry, what? That’s just ridiculous; that’s the same as saying Einstein’s relativity theories are obsolete and deserve no attention. Everything we know from past wise men must weighed in to make an informed decision in the future, if not used as a base for further evolution. Until we collectively decided something to be obsolete, and even then with reservation, should we put a theory completely outside our frame of reference.

Second, you declared yourself informed and knowledgeable enough to declare Robert Martin’s work irrelevant. What arrogance. Are you the master of packages in software? If you were, you’re arguments lack body to put it mildly. I’ll produce some counter arguments to your non-argumented opinion nonetheless: there are patterns worked into the white paper that are very relevant even today, such as ‘Common Reuse Principle’ and ‘one-way graphs’. The fact those are applied to packages was very novel to me and broadened my perspective. Those properties are not bound to a year of writing; they transcend their applied context: packages.

Third, even if his work -and thereby this post about his work- is completely obsolete, useful information can be harvested from it still. For example, one can learn how package management evolved from early years into the current software ecosystem. If you are not looking for that kind of information, who cares? Move on, you are not the target audience for this article. You came here, so don’t go crying that it’s not what you were looking for.

If you don’t mind, I’ll just put a quote here from the Vesijama wiki.

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