Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/15/15:13:27
Hi,
This is just to let you know that I totally agree with what Joachim has
written. I too am annoyed and affected by the recent changes made in
cygwin (drop of MS-DOS path support in make and changes in executable
file name evaluation in the cygwin DLL). He has expressed better than I
could have what I think and feel in a respectful and constructive way.
I think this is unfair to say that he is whining the same line again and
again. My perception is more that a lot of users had the same complain
about the recent changes without being taken seriously into
consideration.
Greetings,
Olivier Langlois
http://www.olivierlanglois.net
>
> It's not about anyone denigrating anyone else's contribution, or
anyone
> trying to muzzle anyone else's opinion. That's paranoid hyperbole and
> exaggeration.
>
> It's just that if someone doesn't want to do it, and you aren't
> persuading
> them, to carry on repeating the same line again and again and again
and
> again
> is insulting, for three reasons: 1) saying the same thing over and
over
> again
> when someone has already explained why they're not going to do what
you
> want
> constitutes nagging, 2) saying the same thing over and over again when
> someone
> has explained why they're not going to do what you want to do implies
that
> you
> haven't had the courtesy to listen to a word they've said, and 3)
saying
> the
> same thing over and over again when someone has already explained why
> they're
> not going to do what you want to do is more-or-less spamming. It's
> pointless,
> annoying, offensive, whiney and arrogant. It just starts to sound
like
> "Me me
> me me me I want I want I want" and people quickly start to react to
you as
> if
> you actually /were/ a four-year old.
>
> Please see http://isbn.nu/0671723650 for more information.
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