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[Pnet-developers] RE: FW: vs project
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Neil Cawse |
Subject: |
[Pnet-developers] RE: FW: vs project |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:56:53 -0400 |
Ok so you pissed off a good contributor - who will probably go somewhere
else but you saved yourself the effort of one day deleting 24 files in a
directory from cvs.
Maybe you need to see the wood for the trees.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhys Weatherley [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:41 PM
> To: Neil Cawse
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: FW: vs project
>
> On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:21 am, Neil Cawse wrote:
> > It's a real pity you can't compromise; you might get more out of
> > people...
>
> I have compromised. If I had my way, we would not support VS at all.
> Writing
> a csproj-generating tool is the compromise between "No VS" and
"Impossible
> to
> maintain tree of manual files".
>
> As the primary GNU maintainer, I do sometimes have to make decisions
for
> the
> greater good of the project. Sometimes this means rejecting a
proposal on
> the grounds that it will be more trouble than it is worth. I do try
to
> only
> exercise this authority when it is absolutely essential. See the
> "Cleaning
> Up Changes" section of the GNU Maintainer's guide for more
information:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_11.html#SEC11
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rhys.
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