Re: building from CVS... some thoughts
- From: Dan Newcombe <Newcombe mordor clayton edu>
- To: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil nu cs fsu edu>
- cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: building from CVS... some thoughts
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:11:37 -0500 (EST)
Excuse me, but what assumptions did I make that have pissed you off?
Is it the part where I said other people should use it, or the part where
I said I've made errors in the past?
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> Well, not to be crass or anything, but I take offense to this. I am a
> newbie only to CVS and its intricacies. I am however, NOT a newbie to
> bleeding edge software having come from the days of slackware and .tar.gz
> distributions of software that needed compilation and fixing to get them
> to run properly. In fact the reason that I made the foray was
> SPECIFICALLY to use bleeding edge software. Please refrain from making
> assumptions like this in the past.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Jason
>
> On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Dan Newcombe wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Steven Blunt wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:46:02 -0800 (PST), Jeff Stern
> > > No offence to the newbies, but if you can't work out how to compile from
> > > cvs, then perhaps you shouldn't be using it. It is supposed to be bleeding
> > > edge stuff for developers, there is no need to make it doable by end users.
> >
> > But on the other had, by having people other than the developers use it,
> > more bugs get worked out, more ideas generated, etc...
> >
> > I know I've been guilty of asking a few dumb questions, and some of them
> > have been because I thought my snap of glib was new enough, and it wasn't.
> > And some of them have been because following the FAQ info didn't work -
> > mostly because of cvs not grabbing directories corretly.
> >
> >
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