From: pk <peterk2@coolmail.se>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:02:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E14BF3B.8020607@coolmail.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5098158.chQrAVvWtm@nazgul>
On 2011-07-06 21:37, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Holy shit, that attitude from Samuli sucks big balls big time.
Yes, fully agree.
> He's always come across to me as an OK dev, never seen him pull THAT
> stunt before.
I've seen it, although he does come across as an OK dev to me as well.
He can argue technically, when he feels like it...
> Devs get a certain amount of leeway and tolerance from users because
> of what they do as volunteers. But there's a line somewhere and in my
> view arbitrarily deciding to obsolete a toolkit just because you feel
Yes, but what can we do about it? Force him (I assume he's volunteering
and is not payed for his work) to continue supporting it? Well, I assume
we could pay him... or something.
> like it crosses that like. Following that up with a "fuck off and stop
> re-opening the ticket" is even worse.
Yes, really bad.
> You'll note I used the verb "obsolete" and not "deprecate", that is
> deliberate. He has not deprecated gtk+-2 in spite of naming it that,
> he is trying to obsolete it without going through the gradual
> dwindling away that deprecation is designed to encourage.
Worrisome.
Best regards
Peter K
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 16:35 [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it? Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-06 17:23 ` pk
2011-07-06 19:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-06 20:02 ` pk [this message]
2011-07-06 20:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-06 22:53 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-07-06 23:06 ` Dale
2011-07-06 23:20 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-06 23:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-07 3:04 ` Dale
2011-07-07 17:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Orlitzky
2011-07-07 19:36 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-07 20:01 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-07-07 20:47 ` Dale
2011-07-07 20:57 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-07 21:03 ` Dale
2011-07-08 4:42 ` 微菜
2011-07-06 18:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-07-07 2:12 ` 微菜
2011-07-07 2:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-07 3:31 ` 微菜
2011-07-07 7:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2011-07-07 12:07 ` Stroller
2011-07-07 22:50 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-07-07 23:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-07 16:44 ` [gentoo-user] " pk
2011-07-07 17:14 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-07 23:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-08 12:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2011-07-08 13:14 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-08 15:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-08 17:39 ` Stroller
2011-07-09 7:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-09 14:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-08 17:50 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-08 19:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Albert Hopkins
2011-07-08 20:32 ` Stroller
2011-07-09 16:28 ` William Hubbs
2011-07-09 20:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-08 18:03 ` Stroller
2011-07-08 13:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4E14BF3B.8020607@coolmail.se \
--to=peterk2@coolmail.se \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox