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Re: FW: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:04:34 -0400
- Subject: Re: FW: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 16 August 2006 00:04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:53:17PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>>>John W. Eaton wrote:
>>>>On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote:
>>>>>Clearly, developers make a huge contribution, nobody is denying this,
>>>>>but to suggest that *only* developers contribute and everybody else
>>>>>should therefore just shut up
>>>>
>>>>I never said everyone else should "just shut up". My point was that if
>>>>you aren't contributing in some way, then you shouldn't expect your
>>>>complaining to carry much weight. The way to get things done is to do
>>>>the work, not just complain and hope that people do something for you.
>>>
>>>...or offer money. That carries more weight than complaining. :-)
>>>
>>>However that doesn't work in all cases. This I am reasonably confident
>>>is one of them. But as a general rule...
>>
>>No, it would work in this case, but I hesitate to name my price since
>>it will surely make me sound even more evil.
>
>And that would be a bad thing because .... ?
I'm still getting used to being evil. I have to take it one step at a
time. I still have some small vestiges of humanity left and am not
quite ready to be viewed as diabolical yet.
cgf
Btw, it's $2000.