Re: building from CVS... some thoughts

["Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil nu cs fsu edu>]

Dan, you didn't wound me at all.  I was replying to the other person's
reply.

--Jason

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Dan Newcombe wrote:

> Excuse me, but what assumptions did I make that have pissed you off?
> 
> Is it the part where I said other people should use it, or the part where
> I said I've made errors in the past?
> 
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> 
> > Well, not to be crass or anything, but I take offense to this.  I am a
> > newbie only to CVS and its intricacies.  I am however, NOT a newbie to
> > bleeding edge software having come from the days of slackware and .tar.gz
> > distributions of software that needed compilation and fixing to get them
> > to run properly.  In fact the reason that I made the foray was
> > SPECIFICALLY to use bleeding edge software.  Please refrain from making
> > assumptions like this in the past.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > --Jason
> > 
> > On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Dan Newcombe wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Steven Blunt wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:46:02 -0800 (PST), Jeff Stern
> > > > No offence to the newbies, but if you can't work out how to compile from
> > > > cvs, then perhaps you shouldn't be using it.  It is supposed to be bleeding
> > > > edge stuff for developers, there is no need to make it doable by end users.
> > > 
> > > But on the other had, by having people other than the developers use it,
> > > more bugs get worked out, more ideas generated, etc...
> > > 
> > > I know I've been guilty of asking a few dumb questions,  and some of them
> > > have been because I thought my snap of glib was new enough, and it wasn't.
> > > And some of them have been because following the FAQ info didn't work -
> > > mostly because of cvs not grabbing directories corretly.
> > > 
> > > 
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