From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13761 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2012 03:55:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 13751 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jan 2012 03:55:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:55:33 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LYJ00200JNKEC00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:55:24 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.102.195]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LYJ002BCK823P80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:55:15 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:55:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs? In-reply-to: <201201281809.17343.vapier@gentoo.org> To: Mike Frysinger Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, jim@meyering.net Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <8362fvxiza.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <201201271341.41758.vapier@gentoo.org> <831uqkz1co.fsf@gnu.org> <201201281809.17343.vapier@gentoo.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00107.txt.bz2 > From: Mike Frysinger > 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.