Re: an observation from the sidelines
Vadim Plessky <[email protected]>
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On Sunday 23 March 2003 07:08, David Dawes wrote: | On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:09:13AM +0100, Alexander Kellett wrote: [...] | | >you ask carl worth to give his reasons for the | >difficulty he's had maintaining his code. surely | >the mere fact that he has made a point about it | >proves a problem in the process? your response | >to his email seemed quite defensive. | | In my response I simply attempted to correct some incorrect | assumptions that I felt were relevant to the conclusions drawn. | If that seemed "quite defensive", then I need to work on my writing | style :-) (The Liberal Arts were never my strong point in case | you hadn't noticed.) | | Getting back to this particular thread, there are no old non-active | XFree86 guys telling Carl Worth what he can work on. From his | description of his work, it sounds like it could stand on its own | independently of XFree86. If Carl Worth would like his work to | become a part of XFree86, then he should present it to the XFree86 | developers via the public [email protected] list. well, I think Carl indicated in one of his mails (IIRC, on Devel@XFree86 list) that he would like his work to be part of XFree86 - but after XF 4.3.0 release. Xr/Xc extensions were not ready in Dec. 2002. It's clear that in order to rewrite existing "pure X apps" to Xr/Xc model, you need to have those extensions in the background. So, including Xr/Xc into XFree86 is just matter of time. I just hope this would happen Pretty Soon, so that more people would be able to test new features offered by new extensions. | | >maybe its just my involvement in the kde project | >- which is about as open as could be possible - | >that gives me this attitude, but well, i think | >its the right one. | | Yes, the development environment that you work in probably affects | your attitude and expectations, just as the one I work in affects | mine. It's natural that you think yours is right, othewise you'd | change it, wouldn't you? :-) Surely there's enough room in this | world for different opinions to co-exist. | | David -- Best Regards, Vadim Plessky SVG Icons * BlueSphere Icons 0.3.0 released http://svgicons.sourceforge.net