Re: Octave-Forge make failure under Red Hat 9

[Paul Kienzle]

On Jul 3, 2004, at 2:05 PM, Julius Smith wrote:

> Ok, I'm sorry I suspected that the problems were not 
> platform-dependent and that the project couldn't build.  I agree that 
> my email contained incorrect speculation and that I should have given 
> the developers of the Communications Toolbox more benefit of the 
> doubt.
>
> To explain why I overstepped, I had just lost a precious afternoon 
> debugging their package under Red Hat Linux, which I didn't realize 
> was a second-class platform at the time.  My life is such that half an 
> afternoon can be an entire WEEK of discretionary personal time.  Yes, 
> I was having a bad day.

I don't even want to begin to tally the amount of discretionary personal
time I have invested in this project, but that is my foolishness ;-)

Perhaps something good has come out of your complaint, impolitic
though it might have been.  I am making a small change to the
octave-forge build system so that if something doesn't build correctly
it is ignored but everything else is built and installed.  That way
only the people who need the underlying functionality have to deal
with it, not everybody else.  I suspect it will lead to lower product
quality overall (people with alternate platforms won't be offering
fixes for things they don't need), but generally happier users.

And yes, you are right --- this thread should die...

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden



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