Hi, Jack, I am sure that Jean-Francois was trying to be helpful, and was doing a task that I basically asked him to do, as I did not feel that I had the time for it. I do however understand your reaction, you have good reason to be wary, but he was only taking over ownership of the ticket, not the package.
As for effort, I don't know if the rest of the people on this list know quite how much effort you have put into GCC. It's pretty simple - without Jack's efforts* it is extremely likely that gcc-4.5 would not work on Mac OS X. There would be no argument about packaging the damn thing for Fink, there would be nothing worth packaging. Jack has put in more time and effort to the GCC project than I have ever put into an unpaid project. Should Jack have commit to Fink's CVS? My honest opinion is yes, but I think he'd either have to be restricted by technical means (cvs acls?) to committing to only his packages, or he could be asked to make that commitment himself. Even that restriction should be removed after some period, so that he can be in an equal position to other maintainers with commit privileges. Every probationary period must have some end. I am lucky, however, in that I don't get to make that decision. I was ready to commit whatever package Jack had last time I looked at it, but Jack decided to look again to see if he could have the various GCC packages installable simultaneously, and asked me to wait. This is not the action of some irresponsible maintainer who cares little for users having to rebuild a huge package again and again. Jack, I see from the ticket that Jean-Francois offered to do the update-alternatives work for you if you wanted, personally, I would have taken that offer :-) Also, remember that you are not being forced into doing anything, I am confident that Jean-Francois would accept and test any package that you declare final, even if you decide to disregard his advice. Similarly, I am sure that he would commit any such GCC package that is not obviously broken or worse than current GCC packages. He's only trying to help and offer advice - just as I asked him to do, he deserves no part of any blame here. Thanks, Peter * Ok, so others worked on it too, including Iain and Dominique, but I think it'd be a pretty sad compiler without Jack. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
