On Thursday, 30 March 2006, at 16:11:53 (+1000), David Seikel wrote: > Now I think you are just being a troll.
You're welcome to think whatever you like about me. > Linux is not our only target, Of course not. But does entrance actually work on any non-Linux platforms? Does your auto-detect script? How many non-Linux platforms come with both sudo and lsof installed and working out of the box? And you'll notice I said it should be the default *on Linux*. > hard coding a VT into entrance was considered in the original > mailing list discussion and rejected, I don't recall that discussion; do you know when it happened? Got any URL's? > and your first sentence is just flat out trolling. Not at all. In every distro I've used, mingetty processes are started on each of tty1 through tty6 only. tty7 is always reserved for the first X server, and tty8 is used for the rare cases of a second. Any user or distro which would attempt to start a getty process on the same tty on which they're trying to start X is flawed because it would lead to the very type of race condition you mentioned. It's simply broken behavior. > "Thank you Dave for the work you did to work around some problems > that lots of entrance users where complaining about. As you > suggested in your commit, I reviewed your autofoo stuff and fixed a > flaw in it." Is that so hard to say? This isn't about you or what contributions you've made. We are looking at problems with packaging entrance which have been created by a change you made to its build process. That is the topic of discussion right now. I'm sorry if you feel slighted because I haven't thanked you for your work, but in the world of free software, people who are driven by constant displays of gratitude are generally disappointed by the reality. > As usual, instead of people helping out during the testing phase, > people wait until I commit before bitching and moaning about it. I > expect this now, some people are just like that. Not really much > more I can do. Good grief, man. Get used to it! There are certain facts of life when it comes to open source software development, and that's one of them. People often don't try things unless they're part of the default setup. Another one is, most people don't test stuff in pre-releases of software unless they follow development closely. I've had numerous experiences where people around here have waited until after I make a release to inform me, "Oh, by the way, Eterm doesn't build right on Solaris." It happens to everyone. If you get all pissy every time it happens to you, you're going to give yourself an aneurism. Let it go. > P.S. All I ever want to do is help people. All I ever get in > return is abuse. I'm used to it, I don't give a shit anymore about > the abuse. I'll just continue to help people no matter what nasty > things people throw at me. All it ever accomplishes is to move > these abusive people further down on my list of people I will > happily co operate with. I'm not sure where this emotional outburst came from or why you feel abused, but I think you need to take a break and relax for awhile. You seem to be lashing out over nothing. Chill out for a bit. We'll still be here. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "To live on as we have is to leave behind joy, and love, and companionship, because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We know it will turn to ash." -- Lorien, Babylon Five ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
