On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Alexia Death <alexiadeath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Ilya Zakharevich > <nospam-abuse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I can see how a John Do can blame GIMP for GTK+ issues, but I don't >>> see why GIMP developers should bother about John Do's misconceptions >>> about software development. >> >> These are not misconceptions. Software does not modularize; at least >> not in the sense of dilution of responsibility. If you use a library, >> its bugs BUG YOU. > > I think that it is one of the STRENGTHS of FOSS that if there's a bug > in a component users of that component do not try to hack round it, > but expect the bug to be fixed at the source benefiting everyone. > > I'm sorry to say this, but your attitude is starting to piss me off. > Your attack mentality and complaining are not helping. Perhaps you > should stop that and do something that would actually help, like > contribute some code. > > We work on gimp for FUN. Most of us do not use Windows(I don't have > one for my personal use) and those that do are not skilled enough to > do GTK development on that platform. We do what we can. I personally > got involved in the project by hunting a bug that ended up being in > GTK. It got fixed. True, the bug was specific for Linux, but that's > the platform I do my development on. I done have neither the will nor > skills to do that. You can do it on windows if you want. ^^^^ This :). You said all the things I wanted to say but didn't figure out how to express. I won't say anything else to avoid being inflammatory. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
