From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, jim@meyering.net
Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201300127.57697.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8362fvxiza.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Saturday 28 January 2012 22:53:13 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > being a free software developer doesn't mean being able to force
> > people to adhere to what works on their personal legacy systems
> > where the user refuses to upgrade the software. that is
> > unreasonable.
>
> I cannot and didn't force anyone to do anything. I made a request.
> Disagreeing with that request and acting against it is entirely
> appropriate and understood; calling it ridiculous or using other
> derogatory language is not.
sorry, but i guess that's my interpretation. asking people to not use xz even
though you've shown no reason other than tar itself on deficient platforms
cannot directly read the compression is ridiculous. it is absolutely trivial
to decompress it first if you are on such a system as i showed.
> There's nothing in MS-Windows systems that can be called "legacy" or
> "old".
seriously ? there is *plenty* in MS-Windows that can be called both those
things. even MS documents these in great detail in the MSDN.
-mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 20:22 Jim Meyering
2012-01-26 20:32 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-26 21:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-26 22:15 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-26 23:10 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-01-27 1:49 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27 5:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-27 9:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30 19:08 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-27 1:48 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27 18:41 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-28 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-28 23:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-29 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30 6:26 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-01-30 17:49 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-30 19:54 ` Stan Shebs
2012-01-30 20:53 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-30 21:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 2:37 ` Ralf Corsepius
2012-01-27 9:26 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-27 20:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 20:30 ` Marek Polacek
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