Zero sarcasm intended.
On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
...
Hal, so many words for a small issue. Decisions were made with the
intent of serving the most people the way they expected to be
served. There are but a handful of people trying to serve you here.
Either contribute or not, up to you, but please just fix your PATH
the way you like and let us move on.
1) Google the story on Winston Churchill and how long it'd take him
to prep a 2 hour speech vs. a 5 minute speech. You want it short?
Then give me 2-3 days to edit it.
2) I have fixed it, but notice that many points were brought up
AFTER I had dealt with it and people have brought up issues
connected with it.
This is so common with Perl. It used to be me complaining. Good people
with good intentions have spent what volunteer time they have
available to come up with what is an acceptable perl solution for most
people. Improvements are welcome, preferably with code.
3) A list like this is for dealing with issues on a particular
software and often when dealing with one particular issue, it brings
up bigger issues. Note that most of the discussion has been between
other people, so this topic is of concern to more people than just
to me.
4) I have, as I pointed out, contributed to FOSS projects a number
of times. (Also in time, money, and helping users, which I didn't
include.) But, in all honesty, it's the STFU comments like this one
that remind me why, even though I love the concept of FOSS, I've
been moving away from it more and more and dealing with commercial
programs where developers don't start adopting a "blame the user"
attitude when a problem comes up. Daniel was suggesting I get
involved by filing bug reports. It's responses like yours that are
why I avoid that now days and have had less and less to do with FOSS.
Every distribution I have used has it's Perl woes. You state "I don't
mind submitting bug reports, but I do want to know, openly and
honestly, how they're handled.". Why not just file a bug. I don't know
how to tell you how your bug report will be handled. Seeing a bug
report would help answer how it will be handled. There are plenty of
bugs already for us (you included) to work on. If you don't see how
and why the MacPorts contributers produced the perl you don't like I
understand. Please file a ticket explaining how MacPorts perl could be
done better. Keep in mind, this list thread will fade and receive zero
attention very soon. A bug report has legs.
Thank you for your interest in improving MacPorts in general and
MacPorts Perl specifically.
Regards,
Brad
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