Re: [Bug 118708] could not locate ISO DocBook entities

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:27 -0400, Carson Gaspar wrote:
> 
> --On Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:12 AM +0200 guenther 
> <guenther rudersport de> wrote:
> 
> > If you think this bug is easily solved, why didn't you provide a patch
> > for this bug yet? You already had about 2 years to come up with
> > anything...
> 
> I did. Ages and ages ago. Posted to the garnome list. It should be in the 
> archives. If not, replacing "-iname foo*bar" with "-name 
> [Ff][Oo][Oo]*[Bb][Aa][Rr]" isn't exceedingly difficult.

True. However, no one so far cared to come up with a solution as simple
as this. Including those guys running Solaris, who should care...

If you posted a working solution "ages and ages ago" feel free to
re-post it or at least a link to the archived post.


> Oh, and grep'ing for Solaris in /etc/release is a _terrible_ way to do OS 
> detection. uname is there for a reason. /etc/release is only required to 
> determine which sub-sub-sub flavour of Linux you're dealing with.
                                         ^^^^^
Now you're confusing Linux with UNIX derivatives and flavors, eh? ;-)


Granted, it is a quick hack. The comment mentions this fact. Well, it
should work. Another bug outstanding for 18 months, which no one cared
to fix yet.

Anyway, I don't feel like being flamed for caring about bugs and coming
up with working solutions. If you do know how to improve the patch, feel
free to do so. We accept proper patches sent to the list. If you don't,
I'll maybe have another look at this tomorrow.


> > Judging from your recent comments and behavior, Free Software seems to
> > be a one-way thingy to you. It's free for you to use, but you don't
> > bother fixing or at least discussing issues for the benefit of others...
> 
> I did, and have. It's been a total waste of time so far where Gnome is 
> concerned.
> 
> > btw, GNU is not UNIX. And GNU is not Linux either. So please, take your
> > braindead comments about Linux and your world elsewhere.
> 
> And the entire world isn't GNU. If you want to live in a GNU-only world, I 
> can't stop you. But I keep trying to make things work for more folks. I 
> suggest you google my name before accusing me of not contributing to open 
> source projects.

I don't care, really. If you contributed to Free Software before, that's
fine. If you contributed a lot, even better. I do respect anyone who
does.

Anyway, I did *not* accuse you of not contributing to Free Software. If
you read that paragraph again you'll note that I referred to your recent
post(s) only.


"We" (as in GARNOME) do not focus on GNU/Linux only. It's a fact that
the GAR build system historically highly depends on GNU tools. However,
the GARNOME community and Paul in particular has put quite a lot of
effort recently into supporting other systems, including Solaris and
AIX. We want to spread GNOME, not GNU/Linux. I suggest you actually
discuss with us, before accusing us of living in a GNU-only world.


Regarding GNU tools and their usage: You *do* know what GNOME stands
for, don't you? ;-)

Don't get me wrong dude. I want to fix issues, making it work for as
much systems as possible. That's why I had a look at a lot of bugs
today, and fixed a bunch. I just happened to overlook in the first place
that this particular issue can be fixes easily.

It's not appropriate to resort to ranting and flaming though, rather
than giving proper feedback -- may it be in bugzilla or here.

...guenther


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