Re: Awesome new Mozilla roadmap!

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no>]

man, 07.04.2003 kl. 01.39 skrev Ali Akcaagac:
> On Monday 07 April 2003 01:21, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > This is the most foolish thing I've from you yet.  Aside from the fact
> > that pkg-config is *not* GNOME specific (I use it in all my projects,
> > none of which are GNOME software, or even depend on glib), it's frickin
> > useful piece of technology that *all* software should use.  It solves a
> > problem at the OS level, does so very well, and exists for the sake of
> > making software building and installation far easier.  XFree86 becomes
> > more usable (software building wise) for *all* software, be it GNOME,
> > KDE, something Motif based, whatever, while those who wish to not use
> > are in no way forced to - they can continue using black-magic flags to
> > ./configure and setting environment variables to do their basic software
> > building.
> 
> You asked for it and you got an answer, so where is the point ? Personally I 
> think that pkgconfig adds another level of complexity to the to be build 
> software. The old *-config files did the trick very well but NO, something

Do you seriously think we overcomplicate things just to piss you off?
Man, get a grip.

>  
> new has to be created just for the sake going for new ways. All these evil 
> things has been invented by people working on GNOME. Instead getting the 
> desktop up to some usable state you people trying hard to convince other 
> projects to adapt your stuff.
> 
Evil GNOMies, rah, rah, rah

> Anyways I again wonder where we stepped again with this conversation. I always 
> wonder why this is happening on the GNOME lists and on no other list. 

And you wonder why? I give up.

Cheers
Kjartan