On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Kyle Huey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:30 PM, lkcl luke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> oh i know - because pyxpcom has been relegated to third party status. > > > Yes, exactly.
now i am spending considerable time spending considerable core mozilla community's time dealing with the mess caused by that decision. >> how is this going to get fixed? (a so that this stops happening b >> these specific coding errors so i can get some working code) > > > It's not going to get fixed unless someone steps up to fix it. ok, this is inappropriate to be discussing when there is still silence from ben when i've answered the issues he raised, pointed out that they are moot, and am waiting for him to run and install pyjamas-desktop. all this is with a view to getting on the same page in order to demonstrate what the benefits of doing so are... ... but for the sake of argument, even though it risks wasting everybody's time, i'm going to provide an answer - because you asked. a) who is going to pay for their time? b) who is going to train them or answer their questions? c) how much time is it going to take to train them and answer their questions? ... it's going to be the core mozilla developers, isn't it? how long do you think it would take the core mozilla team to keep a small codebase like pyxpcom up-to-date vs having to continuously answer under-informed bugreports such as this one, here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731121 boris, for example, who has been extremely helpful up until now, is getting _really_ fed up - and that's just the one bugreport! i'm going to keep on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on at this until i get answers, and pyxpcom works. then, in a couple of months, i'm going to try again. and i'll find more bugs. and i'll raise bugreports again and again until i get answers. and that loop will be repeated, working from an under-informed position where i don't have the time or money to attend mozilla conferences, or listen to mozilla phone calls (b2g), or trawl through mozilla documentation, or trawl through millions of lines of mozilla source code. are you _getting_ it yet? i don't _like_ having to do this kind of thing. it's not fun for me to have to point these kinds of things out, but somebody has to. > And as has > been stated several times, ... and as the points which _answer_ those statements have been ignored several times... > the core Mozilla community has no interest in > doing so. kyle, that's really not helpful right now. this is complex: the core developers don't understand the issues, and i'm endeavouring to help them to understand. please don't interfere. thank you. l. _______________________________________________ dev-embedding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding
