Re: [V] Re: [PATCH] Make daikon work with Build package

Joachim> Anyhow, I don't care much; I just wanted to help. MP> My apologies for the response your patch has received. I don't take it as a problem, no apologies needed. My reaction might have been misunderstood -- I'm not pissed off, I just should have asked before I spent the work preparing the patch. In fact, I can understand Steve who's worrying that the right solution will not arrive any time now -- but I don't agree with him that the `right' solution will arrive earlier by not fixing the current system. In particular, since the current system is announced on the Web Site as `the way to do it' and that way doesn't work without errors any more. As far as I follow xemacs-beta, reworking build seems to be very low on the priority list, and it's not as if the XEmacs development team would have free time right now. ;-) This is no big deal anyhow. I just switched to SUSE 10.0, and when the distribution's XEmacs wasn't able to do package updates, I compiled a new one by myself. Then I discovered Build and used it. (I even sent a build report that somehow didn't make it to the list.) When I got errors from the configure call created by build, I recognized that they are due to an out-of-date configure.usage and made the patch. Besides, I'm being used that patches from me are mentioned for almost a decade in the FAQ (about a changed cl-indent.el that I posted to c.e.x in 1994), get not integrated, and then get discarded in December by Ben. :-) :-) Joachim> Next time I'll spend the evening with my wife, instead of Joachim> preparing an unannounced patch. ;-) Please note: the emphasis was on `unannounced'. In retrospect, I see that meaning is not visible enough. MP> Why not do both? As I type this my wife is sitting beside me, in MP> front of her computer, breastfeeding our 5 month old and flaming MP> some loser on misc.kids. I also have the luck that my wife is a geek. (If you happen to own a 2nd ed. of the LaTeX Companion, a picture of us is on the last biography page. :-) But we also spend quite some time to run an IT company, and learned the hard way in the last 24 years that one needs to be careful to take one's time off, too. So I try to spend work in Open Source projects only when I'm reasonably sure that it sits well with the current development team. Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany ``How do we persuade new users that spreading fonts across the page like peanut butter across hot toast is not necessarily the route to typographic excellence?'' -- Peter Flynn