Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Encouragement and Constructive Criticism

2002-05-19 Thread Max Horn
At 11:45 Uhr -0600 19.05.2002, Jeff Whitaker wrote: I've got an evolution-1.0.5 package working with SSL (aside from the calendar, which is still broken). If it's OK with Max, I'll commit it tommorrow. Yeah that would suite me well. I just started work on that, too, but if you have already

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Encouragement and Constructive Criticism

2002-05-19 Thread Mark Rahner
Max, you've become rather emotional over absolutely nothing. I think it's clouding your judgement. Max Horn wrote: At 20:07 Uhr -0400 18.05.2002, Mark Rahner wrote: Hi Max, I think you misunderstood some of what I was saying. I've added comments inline below. -Mark Max Horn wrote: I

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Encouragement and Constructive Criticism

2002-05-19 Thread David R. Morrison
Mark, As you have correctly pointed out, fink's evolution package is unusable. Max has removed it so that others will not have to go through an experience similar to yours. Most of fink's packages are in fact usable. We're sorry that you had a poor initial experience. If you have trouble with

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Encouragement and Constructive Criticism

2002-05-19 Thread Mark Rahner
Thanks. I've seen that you guys are extremely responsive, even Max, when he's not being so defensive. You have nothing to apologize for. Keep up the good work. I'll leave fink-devel alone now so that you can get some work done. -Mark David R. Morrison wrote: Mark, As you have correctly

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Encouragement and Constructive Criticism

2002-05-19 Thread Max Horn
At 17:03 Uhr -0400 19.05.2002, Mark Rahner wrote: Max, you've become rather emotional over absolutely nothing. I think it's clouding your judgement. Uhm... yes? Thanks that you tell me, I wasn't aware I was emotional about this :-) OK maybe a bit annoyed, since it seems we are completly

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Encouragement and Constructive Criticism

2002-05-18 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 01:07 AM, Mark Rahner wrote: 2) The tool chain for maintaining a bindist must be updated to support bindist. It must be improved to allow easy use, and be made fool proof (because everybody, that includes me, makes mistakes and it's not so nice if that means

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Encouragement and Constructive Criticism

2002-05-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Mark: Just to put this all in a bit of perspective: I understand that the Debian project has around 700 developers. Fink has 20 core developers, plus another 20-30 people who have made substantial contributions. Apple offered some support to fink late last summer in the form of providing