I will do it tomorrow evening... Phil Le Tuesday 13 June 2006 20:17, Youness Alaoui a écrit : > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:44:24 -0400, Philippe Valembois - Phil > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I totally agree with you... Users have to use perfect softwares and not > > buggy > > drivers... > > Anyway, I try to know where is the bug... Why ? Because with that it's > > the > > first time I hack in the kernel level... And I like that ;) It's so bad I > > haven't a pwc compliant cam. Else, I already had tracked the bug and > > sent a > > patch to Luc Saillard... (Doesn't open source means bring your help to > > all > > the edifice ?) > > Cool! congrats! :) > > > Phil > > P.S. Totally OT but should we apply the holly_wood patch about DPs in > > directories ? > > I think so, yes, but only in /trunk, it should never go in the 0.96 > branch. Please include this info in the commit log so we don't forget... > > > Le Monday 12 June 2006 22:54, Youness Alaoui a écrit : > >> not only that, but we'd need to shift the responsability... we really > >> should stop being so nice to the users, look at what happened lately in > >> the forums because of AA fonts and tcl/tk 8.5... he was a stupid bastard > >> but let's take his example.... > >> why bother if the problem isn't ours ? If users complain, we just need > >> to > >> say "it's a driver bug, not an amsn bug, don't bother us", EVEN if we > >> know > >> the solution to it. We had so much work to do because of pwc, I'm fed up > >> with it now. > >> If a user has Tcl/Tk 8.0 and has a bug, we won't say "ohh, you need to > >> modify this and this line", no, we'll just say "upgrade, you can't, then > >> it's your problem", it's a requirement, in the same way a program can > >> require Windows XP to run instead of Windows 3.1 for example. > >> Now, if we let Luc Saillard know about this issue, he might fix it and > >> provide a new version.. so when people complain, instead of telling them > >> to fuck off, we'll just say "upgrade your driver"... > >> The thing is, what you said below is not true, you say "we cannot assume > >> all users will upgrade", oh yeah ? then it's their problem, it's their > >> choice, not ours, they didn't want to upgrade, so it's not our fault... > >> also, the users will know how to upgrade and will have root access... > >> you > >> know why ? because the bug is with v4l2 not with v4l, and the only pwc > >> driver that supports v4l2 is Saillard's driver, which is unofficial and > >> not shipped anywhere, so if a user has the problem it means he has > >> Saillard's driver which means he installed it himself, which means he > >> has > >> root access and he knows how to install it. If I'm wrong, then again, > >> it's > >> not our problem. > >> Do you agree with me ? > >> > >> KKRT > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Amsn-devel mailing list > > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
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