On Friday, 22 June 2012 at 15:37:16 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
You like blaming someone, or claiming someone has bad
intentions. Eg:
Which leads me to believe that whoever has this information
doesn't want people to use it for D development...
The way I'm understanding it is that the message is
essentially "If you want to develop your own
systems with our systems programming language, then you gotta
buy it, sorry. Batteries not included."
There is no need to deduce such messages from insufficient
support or documentation of a free product run 100% by
volunteers.
I see.
I would agree if you said it was nonconstructive, but I don't see
how it's /impolite/ -- at all.
My intention wasn't to claim Walter (assuming that's whom you
meant I was referring to) has bad intentions (I -- at least
partially -- understand he can't just release the code, etc.).
The trouble was that his "solution" to the problem was "buy the
source code".
That's not /bad/ intentions... it simply goes against the nature
of D/DMD.
If his response had instead been "well, I'd love to share this
info, but due to legal issues I can't", then I couldn't help but
sympathize.
The issue is that I've asked this question a bunch of times (e.g.
the one I linked to earlier), and _only now_ has anyone given any
reasonable response at all for solving the problem ("buy the
code") -- so it only naturally makes me wonder: is that the
intention of promoting?
Again, wasn't trying to be "impolite" to Walter (or you or the
others). I just find that the "buy the source code" comment
(which, to be sure, is better than the nothing I'd gotten before)
is sending completely the wrong message.
If you had any other examples for where you believe I've been
impolite, let me know. (Feel free to email me if you don't want
to clutter here.) That would actually be helpful for me.
I think it does not matter
I don't...
because the optimal reaction would be the same in each case:
ignore the comment and continue the productive part of the
discussion.
I do sometimes try to do that, though I guess I'll try it more
often...
