From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 10:31:18 EDT
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 05:11, david thompson wrote:
> A reply to my enquiry and comment about libgal was made yesterday, a copy of which is attached. See how bad tempered it is. My reply is below.
In all honesty, I could've been a lot harsher quite easily.
> I have looked repeatedly in rpm.net but have not found the file. I have also looked on the ximian site and the Gnome site but have not found the file.
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libgal
Wait, isn't libgal7 is the first thing listed on that page. Hrm...
funny, that.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=libgal.so.7
Wait, there's more. I typed 'libgal abiword' into google and got back
some interesting results:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=libgal+abiword
Hrm... this looks like one of many existing answers on the web too,
because this problem isn't unique:
abiword-user@abisource.com/msg02431.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/abiword-user@abisource.com/msg02431.html
Also, a `ls -l /usr/lib/libgal*` would probably list several libgals.
Maybe a `ln -s` might solve things for you too, but I suggested that in
my last email.
> I am very sorry that you cannot take criticism, but the fact remains that the libgal file is obscure, and therefor hard to find. If you insist on making a program which uses obscure files then at least provide a page of links to these files.
Hardly obscure. Evolution, Nautilus, and Gnumeric need it too. Hrmm...
add that to Abi and 4 industrial-strength apps need it. Funny how we all
depend on obscure libraries that no one seems to be able to find.
> I find that the content of the attachment is bad tempered, and sneeky. My message was open - for all too see. But yours is personal, and hidden - like you do not want anyone too see what a 'nice guy' you are, or how well you can take a fair comment.
Grow up and learn how to use your email client. I don't pretend to be a
nice guy all of the time, and my reply was quite public. I am never
sneaky, in part because I don't have to be, but it also doesn't fit with
my persona. For better or for worse, I tend to respond in kind - if your
email was nicely worded, you would've just gotten my standard "hi dave!
try rpm -Uvh --nodeps abi*.rpm" response. I also told you that if you
wait a day or so, Ximian would release RPMs easily usable by you (which
they actually did yesterday...) But instead, you got what you deserved
*and* I gave you several answers after a sound and thorough chastising:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/02/May/0054.html
If you don't like getting burnt, I suggest that you stop playing with
matches.
Dom
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