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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, jim@meyering.net
Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8362fvxiza.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201281809.17343.vapier@gentoo.org>

> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:09:15 -0500
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org,
>  jan.kratochvil@redhat.com,
>  jim@meyering.net
> 
> On Saturday 28 January 2012 03:18:47 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I see nothing ridiculous in a request to cater to a situation of your
> > fellow developer of Free Software, and don't understand how can you
> > ridicule such a request.
> 
> sorry, but i really can't find anything worth replying to here.

But you replied anyway.

> 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.

> i've got plenty of old systems

There's nothing in MS-Windows systems that can be called "legacy" or
"old".

> i don't try and force everyone else to try and support them at the
> detriment of future progress.

Neither did I.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-29  3:55 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 [this message]
2012-01-30  6:26                 ` Mike Frysinger
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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