Arguing about MAY vs WILL and the proper use of a colon is just a waste of time don't you think? How does any of this noticeably impact _your_ life?
Any chance this thread can be put to rest here? On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:47, Lourens Veen wrote: > On Thu 8 January 2004 13:47, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 7 16:34:14 2004 > > > > >> If you unpack this on a Linux-2.6 system using a "star" binary > > >> that has been compiled on Linux-2.4, you will extract a > > >> character special with minor 88 instead of minor 7000. > > >> > > >> This proves that you cannot run binaries from Linux-2.4 on > > >> Linux-2.6 correctly. > > > > > >Well, it proves that you cannot run _some_ binaries that were > > >compiled under linux 2.4 on linux 2.6 correctly. > > > > Well as you may easily read frm the mail to this thread, most > > people are unable to understand which programs would have such > > problems. For this reason, I did use a general warning. > > No, you did not. You said, and I quote (module formatting): > > "It has _always_ been wrong to compile software only once for > different kernel versions (e.g. for compile Linux-2.4 and later > install a 2.2 kernel on the so created system). > > Now that Linux-2.6 introduces incompatible changes to kernel/user > interfaces, the resulting binaries will not work correctly > anymore." > > You did not issue a warning, you said it was impossible, and that no > matter what kind of program it is, it will never work. As I said > before, you should either say that it _may_ not work for software > in general, or that it _will_ not work for cdrecord and star. > > > >Incidentally, your announcements are still a mess. I keep > > > thinking that the BerliOS Open Source center is a new feature > > > of cdrtools each time I read them. Advertisements should be at > > > the bottom. > > > > Well I could put the first line a bit lower, but I cannot > > understand that people could take the sentence starting with > > "Please have a look..." as an announcement for a new feature. > > Well, your first line reads: > > "NEW features of cdrtools-2.01a22:" > > Generally, a colon is followed by an enumeration of things > described. Hence, after reading the first line, I expect new > features of cdrtools, not an advertisement for BerliOS. It's rather > obvious that it is an advertisement, and not a description of a > cdrtools feature, but that doesn't make it any better. > > Lourens > -- > GPG public key: http://home.student.utwente.nl/l.e.veen/lourens.key >
