"G.W. Haywood" wrote:
> Dear Mr. Baker,
>
> If you have "never bothered" to find out why `make test' is failing
> then obviously you don't have any "production mod_perl systems". In
> the light of the comments from Mr. Schwartz, it looks like you have
> only development systems that haven't gone wrong yet, and that a lot
> of other people might be in the same boat, thanks to you.
I certainly don't feel any inclination to defend myself against every
lackwit that pens a flame from the safety of a 10,000 mile buffer. If
you care to look into it, you will see that my contribution to mod_perl
has been much more give than take. You can be certain, however, that
after this incident I won't be giving or taking anything from you, and I
will advise everyone I know, including the authors of most of the free
software you are likely to ever need, to put your email in the permanent
kill file of their mailing lists.
> This has cost me nearly four weeks already, and I dread to think how
> many other people have wasted their time because you never bothered.
>
> For me, your slapdash approach has polluted the mod_perl resource to
> the extent that now I don't trust any of it. The entire exercise is
> written off to experience and I am looking for alternatives.
Your grasp of reality has somehow been compromised. I challenge you to
demonstrate how my contributions have broken the mod_perl build system.
If you are implying that my inaction in fixing the test suite amounts to
a pollution of mod_perl, then I suggest that you are guilty of the same
thing twice over.
-jwb
