On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Stefan Teleman <stefan.teleman at gmail.com> wrote: > > Really ? Harsh ?
Holier than thou, condescendingly vindictive is more like it. For someone who claims KDE e.V in their sig, there is nothing contributing about anything you've said. Other than to try and tear down the KDE4 project, to which you have not contributed to in a long time. > I really don't see how speeding up the uncompression of tarballs helps > with development. It doesn't. It perhaps provides an insignificant > speedup of full builds, and not much more. So what? For qt-4.6.x, I'm looking at between 40 seconds on a fast box and 1m 40 on a 32-bit box with a decent disk. I'd bet that a laptop would be even slower, and improving build times is a desirable item. > Speeding up development would involve speeding up the discovery and > resolution of bugs. That means debugging and writing code. I am quite > certain that you know that too. Contributions come in all forms. That I am not a C or C++ "developer" to your standards is not my concern. In the least. Improving the build process is something I can contribute to, and if that provides an avenue for someone who isn't disillusioned and negative to actually facilitate "discovery and resolution of bugs", then our work has succeeded. > No-one who is actually involved in fixing bugs would rebuild the > entire project plus all its dependencies just to test a bug fix. That would be a silly waste of time for a bug fix. > So, I wonder: other than creating the appearance of "doing development" [ > when in fact no such thing is really taking place here ], what is the > actual benefit of this build system change ? Why do you even care? You don't contribute anymore. You respond like a cranky old b****, complaining about everything, apparently trying to dissuade anyone from contributing to the KDE4 Solaris project. > There seems to be some confusion here as to what "development" really > means. It doesn't mean endless tinkering with the build system, or > endless rewriting of spec files. A build system is a means, not a > goal. What ever. Your inane, semantic arguments are nothing but negativity trying to drag down this project. You talk about "development" like there's only one way to do it, and that would be your way. Either contribute, or STFU and go away. I don't care what you think about the project, and I'm glad there's nothing in your power that will stop me from improving the KDE4 Build environment. I apologize to the list and the KDE4/Solaris team for this response, as it is negative, but I felt something needed to be said. I will not follow up on this topic again. > -- > Stefan Teleman > KDE e.V. Don't you think it's time you remove that from your Sig?
