----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose Da Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <aspell-devel@gnu.org> Cc: "Gary Setter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [aspell-devel] VC6 and BCB5.5 patches
> On Saturday 26 February 2005 06:46 am, Gary Setter wrote: > >>>>> Fact is there are lots of ordinary people who > >>>>> have to do projects based on decisions others make for > >>>>> them, and if it comes down that .NET support is required, > >>>>> there is nothing they can do. > > <snip> > > >>> You do recognize that some people would consider feeding > >>> themselves and their family reason enough to comply with a > >>> demand for .NET support? > >> > >> You appear to come short on saying it out loud, but since you > >> bring it up again, I am going to guess that someone is willing > >> to pay you to put in .NET support. > >> Congratulations. > > > > Wrong, I just recieved an e-mail from a user. There is no money > > in this for me. > > Accept my apology on assuming that this was a paid gig, > after all, it was based on what you had posted above. > Understood, I might have made the same mistake myself. > That's unfortunate, because if people are demanding things and > quoting things like the above (must have .NET, can't feed themselves > otherwise doom&gloom, etc), then they should think about donating > something for the time "you" put in. > After all, it is your time that they affect. > > Somehow, people seem to think in a double standard where it > is okay to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on windows > software yet must expect free service for no pay, for open software. > I agree whole heartedly. > > I'm interested because I would learn something. > > Okay, so you're not talking about starving, In fact I had a very good breakfast with waffles, peaches, and coffee. Ah Sunday morning. > must have, doom&gloom here. > Which means there is no desperate rush to get it done. > Which means you have plenty of your own time to follow up > on your own schedule. No rush on my part. You truely have no empathy for others? > <snip> > > > I ask that you receive the question of OLE componant support > > in the spirit it was asked. > > I have not had reason to go into OLE before and OLE isn't on my > short term goals of interest either, so I can't help you. > Perhaps someone else reading these posts have the answers, otherwise > I think you're going to be stuck following the suggestions I mentioned > earlier. Ok. I will still report here what I found. Already I've found areas were a small change would make it much easier to implement OLE. The Config::read_in_settings(const Config * other) function could be split into a function that takes no parameter and another that takes a second Config object to merge with. I'll keep pluging along. You'd be surprised how one can substitute brains for stick-to-it-ness. _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
