On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Mike Davis wrote: > > i think this one comes down to a bit of "user stupidity" > > why is it that thousands of other people can figure this > > out, yet - you had to get stuck? > > This is absolute nonsense. You may not think that has not happened > to any else but you are wrong. After I posted the post, I got emails > from others that said they had the same problem.
so, a few get confused, yet, many work it out? i just hope John is updating the pages now so we never hear this again > Further, you admitted in one of your posts to John that it was > confusing. confusing yes, wrong.. no understanding how cygwin packages work would never lead to such confusion however - but, thats another story altogether.. > > and, now you are complaining about it not working from > > your *favourite* IDE... get a life man - just because the > > program doesn't work as you expect, it isn't our problem. > > contact the IDE developer and get them to fix it.. it is > > their problem, or, more specifically, your problem.. not > > ours. give this crap a rest. > > Again, (***AGAIN***) you really need to read what I wrote. I said IT > WORKS (I did not say it did not work in my IDE). The IDE works fine. > It is from the BASH COMMAND LINE THAT IT DOES NOT WORK!!!!! > > After the "error in the instructions" was corrected, it downloaded > correctly. MY IDE WORKS. The BASH command produces the error. cd /palmdev ln -s sdk-3.5 sdk by default, it looks in /palmdev/sdk unless you specify which "sdk" to use.. this is mentioned in the documentation somewhere > You are so defensive that you don't even read the details of what > people write. That is a main source of problems. > > > if there is one thing i have figured out from developing > > software is that you can never make your software > > idiot-proof.. its a fact of life - and, now we move on. > > That is true. And you cannot make it user-friendly either, apparently. you want user-friendly? you pay for it. what gets on my nerve is how everyone expects stuff for free, and, when something doesn't work out how they want it to - they want us to all sit on our thumbs and help them.. open source software is very well known to not be "user friendly" and, we put hours of our own time into these projects, understanding how they work and why they work the way they do only to see people come along and say "hey, it doesn't work like i expect - fix it" > I have been reading this news list for 2 years and I see this > continual attitude of resenting helping those that request help. contribute something then. the problem in this case is that John did try to help you, but you couldn't see the forest through the tree's. you had it set in your mind that what you were doing was 100% accurate and you didn't consider that making the change on *your* side was not your problem. > Bottom line: > *** The instructions were followed and > *** nothing that I did was against the instruction AND > *** even you and John admitted that I did nothing that against the > written instructions. so, we didn't write "DONT CHANGE THE INSTALL DIRECTORY" and that is our fault? i dont think so here - the installation of prc-tools 2.0 and 2.0.92 differ amazingly. but, now you know. // az [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ardiri.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
