On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Who said I was delaying a beta?
>
> I do.
I take a great deal of offense to this. Nobody in the group has
worked as hard on this project as I have over the last two years. That
isn't a value judegment, it is a matter of fact. I find it very
distasteful that you would decide that the things I care about currently
are not important to the project. That is not to say they are more
important than what anybody else cares about, but they are no less
important.
> > I have no desire to tackle those problems, so I am working on
> > what I do care about. I am working quite hard to ensure that
> > I don't break the build, although since I am creating new files,
> > the windows build is undoubtable broken (I tried to keep it
> > working, but I have no place to test it).
>
> You mean that out of all of the multitudinous areas you care
> about, there is not even *one* that does not require such massive
> changes and high probability of breaking the build? That you
> could work on without disrupting other people's efforts?
Please do not tell me how much/and what I care about. I believe you would
be very surprised about what interests me these days when it comes to
this code. The last I checked, Roy was completely revamping the build
system. I moved a bit of code from one location to another. I didn't
modify ANY code at all, I just moved it. I do not believe that I have
disrupted other people's work, although I am close to making it possible
for people who want to work on protocol modules to be able to do so
without needing to have the http module.
> You just delivered up a quarter-megabyte of diffs. That is
> a lot to digest, and you admit yourself that it broke the
> build on other platforms, including but possibly not limited to
> Windows. Which means other people have to stop working on
> what *they* care about, possibly some of those beta-delaying
> issues you mentioned, in order to clean up after *you*.
The cleanup is adding *1* file to the build. That's it. If that takes
longer than a few minutes, then there is something wrong. If somebody who
understands the build system on Windows will post step-by-step
instructions for adding files to Windows, then I will ensure that Windows
will continue to build. If this broke other platforms, then it is because
they too use a build system that I can't test, I am not currently aware of
any other system like this. BTW, I just saw Will's post that says I
didn't even break Windows.
> That is either inconsiderate, thoughtless, or selfish. Or is
> there another explanation?
Yes, there is another explanation. I believe that this is important work,
and it is what I care most about. I posted a few weeks ago that I would
be doing this, and nobody stood up to object. Greg even said it was
important work, and that he had tried to do it.
I do not consider it inconsiderate, thoughtless, or selfish to clean-up a
bunch of code so that more people can work on it. Explain to me how it
makes sense to put the DocumentRoot directive in the HTTP module. I
believe that what I am doing is good for the code, feel free to veto the
changes, feel free to back them out. But do not question my motives. I
have worked too hard too help this project succeed to allow my motiives
to be questioned.
Ryan
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