Am 25.11.07, 18:48 +0100 schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: > Le dimanche 25 novembre 2007 à 16:35 +0100, Kai-Uwe Behrmann a écrit : > So checking build logs, while nice, is almost always a massive waste of > time. Except for projects that do fix every warning and where you know > any remaining message is a problem.
Agreed > > > > Distributors should be forceable to meet quite other standards. > > > > > > Please add this at the start of your web sites so I know never to touch > > > anything you produced. Either you make it easy to do the "right > > > > Please eighter quote me with appropriate context or let it be. You changed > > the content inacceptable. With the term forceable, I mean a software > > mechanism, which enforces a upstream maintainer policy for > > downstream distribution. This is quite obvious from te omited context. > > That's what I understood. And I can tell you most every packager will Ok > avoid like the plague an author who thinks he needs to force his policy > instead of fixing the bugs his software hits in the wild. What has a policy to do with bugs? > You only "need" to "force" a policy when your code doesn't work as-is, Yes, of course. Thats why libtiff's configure refuses to compile without a C compiler. It enforces previous installation of such dependency, pretty normal these days. Continues with licenses and so on, as well enforcing something. I would call this all part of a policy, in this case for a C source code project. Probably we use terms here different and you think about "force" within limits or i a certain context, which I am not aware of. > and you refuse to assume this but want to force others to change their > environments so they don't hit your problems and you don't have to fix > them. We should not further compare apples with oranges or bugs with dependencies. regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org
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