On 25 Dec 2007 Peter Naulls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David J. Ruck wrote: >> On 24 Dec 2007 Peter Naulls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Given the outdatedness of most of the stuff that was under the UPP >>> downloads section, I've now removed pretty much everything that >>> was there, apart from some essential support files and the Firefox >>> archives. >> >> Would that act of wanton vandalism be the reason why none of the >> downloads on riscos.info are found anymore?
> Grow up. These type of insults are unwarranted and completely > unneeded. I clearly indicated that I'd be happy to locate anything > anyone wanted. But I don't think it's helpful to distribute > this aging software when newer versions are readily available. Do you offer a 24/7 service? Why not just leave well alone until you've rebuilt latest ones and made sure that they are downloadable via the website. >>> The intent is that Alan's work above should be able to package >>> everything that is of interest. If there's something you really >>> need, be in touch, but it'd be more productive if it was in the >>> autobuilder (most things in the UPP were) and added to the above. >> >> It would be better if you didn't break the website until an >> alternative form of distribtion is actually available. > You're right, it would be better, given the immature attitude > you're demonstrating, to simply not bother. But I persist, > despite my better judgment. Pack it in, I knew you wouldn't be able to resist arguing the toss at every occation, but breaking every download link on a whim is just too much. >> I was after something to uncompress some old unix .tar.z's but >> will obviously have to look elsewhere now. > Correct. But there was nothing there to handle them in any case. > But if you'd bothered to look past the end of your selfish and childish > assumptions, something could have easily been arranged for you. Wrong. gzip will uncompress .z and then sparkfs handles the tar file. > RISC OS will continue to deteriorate whilst we demonstrate our > unwillingness to work together. Fortunately the rest of the world > has long since moved on and no longer cares about us. How was your unilateral descision to remove everything, "working together"? Life is too short for this sort of crap. ---druck -- The ARM Club Free Software - http://www.armclub.org.uk/free/ The 32bit Conversions Page - http://www.quantumsoft.co.uk/druck/ _______________________________________________ GCCSDK mailing list [email protected] Bugzilla: http://www.riscos.info/bugzilla/index.cgi List Info: http://www.riscos.info/mailman/listinfo/gcc Main Page: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/GCCSDK
