Re: [gnome-db] Re: const GList*

[Paisa Seeluangsawat <paisa unt edu>]

> What you dont understand this time? :-( I just asked you to send a
> patch for the const changes in GdaRow and GdaValue *only*.

You missed the point.  It's clear since Nov 18 that that you want
const removed only from GdaRow and GdaValue.  What I didn't understand
was *why* only GdaRow and GdaValue, and that thread ended unresolved.

Anyway, whether that const is there, I don't care much now.  A bigger
problem was why I understood Rodrigo only after the patch came on Nov
18, and not five days earlier when I asked for objections.  It's
because of miscommunication.  Take Rodrigo's recent reply,

> > > This weekend, I'll work on,
> > >
> > >   - remove const from GdaRow* and GdaValue*, and other glib/libgda structs
> > >     I see along the way.
> >
> > And when I submitted a patch that did exactly the first item,
>
> no, the patch included removing const in a lot more places, even,
> for instance, in gda_connection_get_errors

To my understanding, removing const from GList (a glib struct) from
gda_connection_get_errors was in the scope of what I warned I was
going to do.  To Rodrigo's understanding, it's out of the scope.

Make no judgment of who's correct here.  The point is only that, when
Rodrigo and I read the same sentence, we interpret it very
differently.  English isn't my native language either, but the problem
probably isn't merely just that we are using a second language.
Rodrigo's English is very readable to me.

I agree that the problem can be worked out.  However, my main reason
for quitting is that it's no longer fun.  I wasn't discouraged by one
misunderstanding, but the series of misunderstandings drained me.  My
open-source ideology is weak.  I code here only for fun.  I admire
people like Rodrigo who sticks through the high and low to create an
open-source package.  I'm not that dedicated.

Paisa


P.S. to Marius
> Could you please mail the gnomedb list, not only Rodrigo, with your
> ideas and the patch?

I didn't have much e-mailing going on outside the list with
Rodrigo...aside from "hey you haven't answered that mail" types, and
one API thread that was basically a rerun of what was on the list.