From: root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr (root) Subject: Apologies 20 Feb 1998 09:10:48 -0800 Message-ID: Content-Type: text To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I am getting mad about this situation with the linker. There isn't a week that passes without some message with dll/linker related problems. With this frame of mind I did two mistakes: 1: I intervened in the discussion that Mr Faylor was having about a related problem, assuming they were trying to fix the linker problems when, in fact, they were discussing something completely unrelated. My apologies. 2: Then, I atacked Ian, the linker maintainer. This is nonsense, since if there is a person that can *do* anything about it, its surely Ian, so there is no sense in getting angry with him. The problem is, that this situation has been with gnu-win32 since more than 2 years now since the first betas built by Steve Chamberlain, that didn't finish the linker before he left. Every week there is somebody that points that the example in the cygnus page copied verbatim will not work. What makes me mad, is that either the example DOES work, and then you put it in the FAQ (or better in the page itself) HOW TO MAKE IT WORK, or either it DOESN'T, then you take that page away! But I am getting mad again. This list attracts many newcomers. What worries me is that they will get away with a feeling that free software is just rubbish. People say often that free software is more reponsive to bug corrections than commercial software. Well, then I am ashamed to have a big problem here that rests uncorrected for more than 2 years!!!! But I am not working with all this stuff, and have only second hand experience of it. Even worst, I will not fix it. So I do not have any right to get mad at anyone. My apologies to Ian and Mr Faylor. -- Jacob Navia Logiciels/Informatique 41 rue Maurice Ravel Tel 01 48.23.51.44 93430 Villetaneuse Fax 01 48.23.95.39 France - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".