Thomas Steiner wrote: > But I agree with Erik, and you are not fair Yuval: You bloged *after* > your post. How can Flo know from your even shorter (than Erik's) what > you wanted to say?
If Flo did what I said in my short reply he would have learned to fish. He would have found out why 0.8.0 is not released for Windows yet. Same thing for Erik, he would have found out the difference between a tarball release and a binary installer with a simple Google search. I crafted my blog article at the same time as my reply to him and hit the send button in short distance, and it is not the only source of answer to his question. I don't accept your judgment of fairness. > And your reply did neither teach him how to fish nor how to build a > windows execuable. You are mistaking "giving the fish" with "teaching to fish". Or otherwise stated: you expect me to hold the fishing rod for you. This is the teaching method of many western schools and it is also the reason why the fail. They teach you to look at somebody else fishing for you, and best case they teach you how to blindly repeat the steps - not how to really do it yourself. > In short: it was superfluous. I respect and accept your opinion. Obviously I disagree with it, but I can live with it. I don't ask you (nor anybody else) to read my blog. Don't ask me to publish an installer on a page that I am responsible for when I think that that installer is not just superfluous - IMO it is harmful to label such unfinished work an official release. There is nothing distinguishing it from a snapshot installer, and there is a whole series of them available and linked from <http://panospace.wordpress.com/downloads/#devel> When the Windows users community will come up with the right fish (i.e. a working combination of the 0.8.0 tarball + Windows SDK that produces a binary installer that passes the basic tests), it will be served on everybody's table. Until then, people who say: "I've tried to fish and this is where I got to, any help?" usually get the answer that helps them move forward on their quest - from me or from other members of the community. Look at the list archives for examples. people who state that "there is no fish on the table" go hungry until they make the step of starting to fish. Or otherwise stated: until their itch is painful enough from them to scratch it themselves. Yuv --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
