On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Ryan Gasper or Steven Arnold wrote:
>> First, don't state _my_ opinion for me, I believe I am fairly
>> articulate and capable of conveying my point without your help.
>
> What are you talking about? "Unlike you" is stating your opinion
>for you? Get off it.
'Unlike you' implies that he doesn't agree with what you say after that,
thus you are stating his opinion (against) for him.
>> Second, I would rather spend 5 months working on making my game better
>> than 5 months adding a new patch every week or two. If you've made it
>> to this point with all of those horrible bugs and appalling
>> inefficiencies that required half of CircleMUD to be rewritten over a
>> 5 month span, you'll survive the little extra time and effort it'll
>> take you to update things.
>
> Survive it yes, but its ridiculous patching in a 407k patch by
>hand. A bpl should not get that big.
It happens occaisonally, even in the bazaar, look at Linux 2.1.x patches.
>> I really don't see why you feel the overwhelming need to put George
>> and Jeremy into a more uncomfortable situation (reality check: they
>> are real people with real lives) and change a tried-and-true method.
>
> An uncomfortable position? I am not following your logic at all. I
An uncomfortable position in trying to find enough time in our lives to
satisfy your need for frequent releases.
>realize George said he'd backport and include the major fixes on his page.
Hopefully tonight if I stop lagging to cambot.
>But why even go through that? Just release smaller bpls. That would be
>less work for all... unless you get uncomfortable with less work.
I'd wager it's harder for Jeremy to release patches than to let them
accumulate. He has to make sure the patchlevel is created properly by his
script so that you don't get a lib/etc/players in there by accident and
other fun things.
>> -dak : forgive me if I sound pissed-off at everyone...
>
> Learn to control yourself better then.
He didn't say he was pissed off, just that he thought he sounded that way.
I didn't think it sounded that way.
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George Greer - Me@Null.net | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity
http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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