On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 05:11, david thompson wrote: > A reply to my enquiry and comment about libgal was made yesterday, a copy of which >is attached. See how bad tempered it is. My reply is below.
In all honesty, I could've been a lot harsher quite easily. > I have looked repeatedly in rpm.net but have not found the file. I have also looked >on the ximian site and the Gnome site but have not found the file. http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libgal Wait, isn't libgal7 is the first thing listed on that page. Hrm... funny, that. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=libgal.so.7 Wait, there's more. I typed 'libgal abiword' into google and got back some interesting results: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=libgal+abiword Hrm... this looks like one of many existing answers on the web too, because this problem isn't unique: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02431.html Also, a `ls -l /usr/lib/libgal*` would probably list several libgals. Maybe a `ln -s` might solve things for you too, but I suggested that in my last email. > I am very sorry that you cannot take criticism, but the fact remains that the libgal >file is obscure, and therefor hard to find. If you insist on making a program which >uses obscure files then at least provide a page of links to these files. Hardly obscure. Evolution, Nautilus, and Gnumeric need it too. Hrmm... add that to Abi and 4 industrial-strength apps need it. Funny how we all depend on obscure libraries that no one seems to be able to find. > I find that the content of the attachment is bad tempered, and sneeky. My message >was open - for all too see. But yours is personal, and hidden - like you do not want >anyone too see what a 'nice guy' you are, or how well you can take a fair comment. Grow up and learn how to use your email client. I don't pretend to be a nice guy all of the time, and my reply was quite public. I am never sneaky, in part because I don't have to be, but it also doesn't fit with my persona. For better or for worse, I tend to respond in kind - if your email was nicely worded, you would've just gotten my standard "hi dave! try rpm -Uvh --nodeps abi*.rpm" response. I also told you that if you wait a day or so, Ximian would release RPMs easily usable by you (which they actually did yesterday...) But instead, you got what you deserved *and* I gave you several answers after a sound and thorough chastising: http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/02/May/0054.html If you don't like getting burnt, I suggest that you stop playing with matches. Dom
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