-- En reponse de "Re: [Dillo-dev] Dillo on Windows fork" de Robin Rowe, le 04-Sep-2003 :
Jorge,
That you have so many derogatory names for Windows doesn't make a Windows developer feel welcome.
Many, many, many people came to this list, asking question, proposing patches, etc. All of them were welcome and answered nicely. But you're in a Free Software community: if you can't stand the heat, if you can't keep a low profile, scoot. Why do you feel so personal about windows anyway?
Either a native Windows port is welcome (that means no cygwin in case you don't understand), you want any patches I create for building Dillo as a Microsoft Visual C++ project, want to work together, and are happy to answer what technical points you can regardless of operating system I use -- or you don't.
I already explained why, personally, I did not want a windows port integrated in Dillo. A fork is ok, though. There's probably way too much changes between Posix and Windows for the two projects to live together anyway.
I am willing to admit that I have no idea what you are talking about in general. Your previous email, the one from last week that did not attempt to answer my technical questions about Dillo as it is implemented now, told me that "if you want to make dillo run on M$ Windoze natively, you're on your own", and pointed me for the reason to an article whose
Dillo's web site has plenty of references about why Jorge (and Dillo's developers agree, I think) think Free Software is what he wnats to develop for. Not any open source project: Free Software.
only reference to Windows is a rant against "Micro$oft (windoze)", could have led me to the wrong conclusion. All your talk today about having no Windows users currently, cygwin, posix, articles, attacks, FUD, false assertions, lies, the dark side (as you call running Dillo on Windows) and so forth only confuses things further.
Now you're the one being offensive here.
What do you really want me to do?
If you have technical question, ask them, you'll be answered. Or not. Anyway: TAKE THIS DISCUSSION OFF THE LIST! This is a development list, not a fighting list between you and Jorge. This list has a long history of moderation and politeness, and I like it like that. It was never about Jorge, anyway. Didn't you get it? Jorge just happens to be the maintainer and lead developer of Dillo's current main tree. And he's pretty good at it too. But if he's not good enough and somebody feels like forking, developers will go with the most active and appealing project. You don't need Jorge or any of us to tell you what to do. But since you need clarification, here goes: - if you have any technical question, ask them in the list. Politely. - I don't think Jorge will ever consider merging your patches, or any patch about a Windows port. - nobody can or will ever want to prevent you to fork or use Dillo's code in any way you want, provided it's compatible with the GPL. Please, please, nobody answers this message (or this thread in the list). You can answer to me personally if you want to, but I think everything's clear now. Good luck with your project. Best, EG