On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:09:21 +0100, Tor Håkon Gjerde wrote: > It doesn't sound that hard to make that patch. If someone would be so kind > and send me one, I would be very grateful.
Presuming that you aren't a coder yourself -- it typically doesn't work that way. Generally speaking, folks in the OSS world scratch their own itches -- and by asking you to submit a patch, James was gently declining to implement your feature (at least free-of-charge) and urging you to write or commission an implementation yourself. WRT the latter -- I don't know what the market will bear at the moment, but after Christmas I might be available[1] for contract work for $70/hr or so, and for this project in particular I'd be willing to agree to a 3-hour cap. Better, you could ask James if you could hire him to implement this feature -- in all likelihood, he'd be done faster and provide better-quality work. [1] - Depends on how my employer is doing; I also might be entirely unavailable for outside work.
