On 25/04/2019 11:28, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 25/04/2019 à 08:01, Daniel a écrit :
On 2019-04-24 21:45, Steve Litt wrote:
you won't whittle it down to a Minimal Working Example
whose compile time is insane compared to its size, you don't know and
won't learn batch files/powerscript, you refuse to alter your document
either as a solution or as a diagnostic test. You ask others incomplete,
ambiguous questions with only partial context. This problem just isn't
worth solving to you, and for some reason you think it will be worth it
to others to solve your problem.
This sounds insulting. But maybe it is just me in thesis stress.
Speaking for myself, I'm usually willing to help, but in the end
analysis, this is your problem, not mine. If you want *my* help, you're
going to need to take over the busywork, reserving my input to helpful
hints.
I never ask anyone to take over any work. I have not send any
documents for people to figure out what works. I just asked for hints
and thought that is fair enough. Anyway, I think, I don't want *your*
help.
Steve, your remarks are a bit outlandish considering the amount of bug
reporting (I just counted 444 of them, we only managed to fix 171) and
help that Daniel has provided over the last 6 years. He is not just a
person begging for others' time.
Let's guard this discussion from following a hazardous path.
I agree that it is a good idea for not to follow such path.
Seriously, I am very happy about any help I got from people on the list,
and in particular the developers for their work on LyX, including Steve's.
I never expected that anyone does any work for me. The whole thing is
completely voluntarily, I took it. Hence, I am not expecting (in the
sense that others are under an obligation) that any bugs I reported are
fixed. Also, when I post a problem, I sometimes don't have a good idea
of what it would take to resolve it. I hoped there might be an easy way
to achieve what I ask about but sometimes it turns out to involve work
which I might not be able to do for whatever reasons. Then I will just
live with it. In no way I expect others to shoulder any burden.
Best,
Daniel
