aigarius

The reason plugins are not in the main git is that each of them has its own repo. Which begs the question - why are they copied from a release zip and not cloned from repos?

There are a few more funnies there: .gitignore does not ignore the binary files added by these scripts, if there is a new node-webkit and then LightTable release and you re-run the script, your local old node-webkit copy will overwrite the new copy you just downloaded :)

Someone needs some solid packaging help. Oh and node-webkit people need a LOT of very good packaging help. Their build process is so convoluted, it might actually spawn an extra-dimensional entity.

Thanks, that helps a bit. So the ltbin binary blob is actually just a renamed nw binary from https://s3.amazonaws.com/node-webkit/v0.8.4/node-webkit-v0.8... release. I was unable to find out where the libffmpegsumo.so binary came from (I know it is part of FFMpeg and also integrated into Chromium, but what exact version is compiled there and with what options? They differ a lot, even in the legal context). And then there is the whole plugins folder which contains more sources that are not in git for some reason.

There is no real point for LightTable to be providing some bunch of binaries. A pointer to node-webkit would be enough, they have binaries (and build instructions) on their github front page.

Nice announcement, but where is the actual source? The github repo "build instructions" currently tell you to run a script that downloads a binary release from CloudFront, unpacks that and runs whatever was in in it. Sorry, that is not source. Well, at least not complete source. Where is the source for the binaries that are being downloaded and build instructions for them?

Latvia has exports, including to France and Germany, that means that there are goods that are on par or better. Devaluation does not solve anything long-term. What solves things is investment in high-added-value manufacturing and knowledge-based services. Or as you call those investments "buying dept". There is no point for France and Germany to "buy [our] debts" if there is no expectation on our ability to repay those debts, likely from the new production.

You are confounding several things. It is NEVER cheaper to import than to fish, because importing costs money and fishing does not. What you mean is that the opportunity cost of fishing is higher than its market value, meaning that there is another job that you can do for 8 hours that would make you more money than the fish that you could have caught in 8 hours would be worth. For that to be true, you need that job to exist that you can do, which is not always true in high unemployment situations. And when that IS true, then it is a good thing, because that means that the economy as a whole is working more efficiently - you are not spending your time doing useless things, you do something more productive instead.

That's what Latvia did - 20% wage cut across the whole country, up to 40% wage cuts in some areas. Government sector lead the way and privates followed. Devaluation also destroys any savings that people might have AND makes the country less safe for the investors.