[Pnet-developers] RE: FW: vs project

[Neil Cawse]

Ok so you pissed off a good contributor - who will probably go somewhere
else but you saved yourself the effort of one day deleting 24 files in a
directory from cvs.

Maybe you need to see the wood for the trees.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhys Weatherley [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:41 PM
> To: Neil Cawse
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: FW: vs project
> 
> On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:21 am, Neil Cawse wrote:
> > It's a real pity you can't compromise; you might get more out of
> > people...
> 
> I have compromised.  If I had my way, we would not support VS at all.
> Writing
> a csproj-generating tool is the compromise between "No VS" and
"Impossible
> to
> maintain tree of manual files".
> 
> As the primary GNU maintainer, I do sometimes have to make decisions
for
> the
> greater good of the project.  Sometimes this means rejecting a
proposal on
> the grounds that it will be more trouble than it is worth.  I do try
to
> only
> exercise this authority when it is absolutely essential.  See the
> "Cleaning
> Up Changes" section of the GNU Maintainer's guide for more
information:
> 
>     http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_11.html#SEC11
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rhys.