Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > El 29/8/2007, a las 4:23, Johannes Schindelin escribió: > >> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: >> >> But it does not change the _meaning_ of Andreas' criticism. They >> took a perfectly sane system, and turned it into a mess. > > While I agree that most just accept the default, your argument here > and in your previous email is spurious; it amounts to saying "A and > B is offered, but because A is the default it is the same as if B > were not supported at all", which isn't valid logic. If you limited > your argument to criticizing case-insensitive filesystems then I > would have to agree with you; I am not a fan of them. Likewise, if > you said that the default has undesirable consequences I would also > concur. It's your attempt to extend your claim to an argument for > equivalence that I can't buy. Read up on his posting history. >> Plenty of people have this setup > > Agreed... > >> and we have to suffer. > > but, don't you think you're exaggerating a bit here? How much > "suffering" has this really caused you? I gather that you're not > even a user of that operating system; He is the main worker on the MSYS port of git as far as I can tell, while not using Windows as his work platform. So indeed he gets to bear _all_ the pain, and no personal gain. Since I have provided for Windows/MSYS compatibility in AUCTeX's _installation_ procedure (a small part of the project which is mostly operating system agnostic), a much smaller stuff under similar circumstances, I can vouch for the amount of hassle such a seemingly "everything we need should be there in principle" Windows accommodation task causes. And I actually find it extremely distasteful how little involvement in this project is there from genuine Windows users: most restrict themselves to complaining. So at least on this account, I think you are not doing him justice. > I am (have been since the first developer previews), have always > accepted the default filesystem choice, don't even like the > filesystem (have ranted repeatedly about its flakiness on my > weblog), but I think I've run into case- insensitivity issues two > times. If you want to talk about "suffering" then ask me about HFS+ > data integrity. -- David Kastrup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
