Re: [OT] was "Re: Put text spanner below the staff?"

[Thomas Morley]

2016-03-06 18:23 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> I prefer at least leaving a record when there is no reasonable hope
>>> for improvement.
>>
>> If that’s the attitude with which you enter such a conversation, I
>> fear there will be no benefit in contributing my own more optimistic
>> efforts.
>
> Shrug.  I entered "the conversation", namely the discussion thread, by
> providing a fix after an example made it obvious that LilyPond was
> deficient according to my expectations.  You entered the conversation by
> providing a chastisement after my fix made it obvious that I was
> deficient according to your expectations.
>
> It would appear that the attitude with which I entered the conversation
> improved the status quo and yours deteriorated it.
>
> It is easy to predict that this will happen in exactly the same manner
> the next time you choose to enter a conversation for the sole purpose of
> chastising me for not doing enough and/or being nice enough.
>
> So please look for other targets than me for improving people.  Your
> toolbox for that has been proven to be utterly insufficient.  Stick to
> fixing church clocks rather than pocket watches if your tools don't
> scale.
>
> --
> David Kastrup


You both,

please, stop this. Please.

This is a mailing-list about LilyPond coding, isn't?
Let's stick to coding problems, user-support and the like.

-Harm