Subject: Re: commit: win32 Page Numbers dialog
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 12:58:10 CST
Thomas Briggs wrote:
> I have to say that I don't think this is the right attitude to take
> towards the Win32 makefiles. It's not only an inconvenience for those
> people not using the MSVC project files (ie everyone but you),
*cough* Bullshit! *cough*
1. In the last weeks I've mailed, upon request, the project files to two
others. That's in the last *weeks*. You are dead wrong when *stating* I'm
the only one using these. I might also add that one of those had tried for
over a week (!) to get the cygwin to build. One (1) hour after that person
got the project files from me that person had a rebuilt AbiWord ready to
debug. That *included* D/L, setup and rebuild of libpng and zlib. Yes,
makefiles in the *nix emulator CygWin is the only "supported" way.
Apparently it has some problems, and if an "unsupported" build fixed it,
it's good enough for me, the person that needed it, and should be good
enough for all AbiWord developers. It works, and it works well.
2. Upon closer inspection I noticed that build rule for the page numbers
dialog was already in place why your comment had no substance att all
(neither had my "warning" about the need to update makefiles).
Perhaps we should both check our sources. Me before warning about this kind
of crap (we *do* have more serious issues to attend to, don't we) and you
before flaming. I'm here to contribute what I can and feel like, if I create
something that I (and I think a few with me) feel is important, why can't
you just have a look at the makefile and say "OK, I'll add that makerule"?
> it probably breaks the tinderbox build.
Yeah, right! Like the win32 tinderbox have worked the last month or so?! Get
real!
> The makefiles are the official way to build AbiWord on Windows,
> and as such they should be the one build method that's
> guaranteed to work at all times.
Apparently they don't. But, if you *really* want to try to enforce this you
would have to:
- Start using win32 and cygwin yourself to make it work.
- Complain when it does hit the fan, not when someone tells you it might hit
the fan.
or
- Convince enough people to tell me to stop contributing. Don't be surprised
if such a proposal meets at least some resistance.
I will *not* go back to using old primitive makefiles, no way.
> Granted, tinderbox is broken now anyway, but... :)
Then, why even mention it?!
I've worked my ass off today to make this work. I don't like getting
criticised by someone that's at the bottom of the committers list at
http://www.abisource.com/bonsai/toplevel.cgi
I'm sorry for the hurt feelings this post may have created. I don't want to
scare anyone off to contributing just because I did bite back. If anyone
feels like flaming me for this, please do in mailing (I don't think the rest
of this have any real public AW value). :-)
/Mike - I can take well-founded criticism, but this kind of bullshit I
*will* respond to
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Tue Jan 23 2001 - 12:59:13 CST