From: Jim Hettmer (hettmerj@bluemarble.net)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 23:12:13 EDT
OK. This old f**t wants to comment. Here, on the one hand, the Abi
folks have nearly succeeded in doing something impossible - trying to
please all of the people all of the time - and getting nothing in return
but the rewards of a job well done and never finished. On the other
hand, this has been, it seems to me as a non-guru, a difficult time for
software - an unfortunate (I blame no one here) "business" between gcc,
Linux, Redhat, Ximian being an example - so issues like libraries can be
overwhelming even for someone with moderate experience. I got into a
thing where I could not load something because my RPM could not be
upgraded because I already had moved to a library that was too new for
the most recent RPM that my OS would support, and so on.
In other words, for someone who is pretty much at the mercy of all
this confusion, it can be extremely painful and aggravating to wallow
through what seems like miles of barely understandable technobabble
about rpmfind and google (I know what they are, but I remember when I
didn't), getting very tired and increasingly impatient at endless "no,
because you also need..., which you can't have because... and if you get
it it will break ..." etc.
Mr Baretta's correct and well thought-out comments notwithstanding, it
seems to me that there are grounds for a lot of frustration here, and if
there is a little flack, so be it. It is a small price to pay for the
thousands of hours of hard work that have gone into this project, and
others as well, and really serves as a learning exercise and reminder to
the rest of us, that these are human beings out here, on both sides, and
therefore not everything will always go smoothly.
It's called being alive. And more power to it.
Be excellent to each other.
Cheers
Jim
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