On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:47:26 -0700, Jim White wrote:
But I do know I set up Darwine because of the antagonistic and dismissive tone here when I tried to discuss Darwin & Mac OS X development ideas.
I have yet to see anybody give Emmanuel and the other Darwine developers anything but respect. The "dismissive tone" you received are because you are not a developer and like most open source projects, Wine has a simple currency -> those who do the work get the respect.
Tell people they should work on a port to a platform they don't use and you'll be told to do the work yourself. Dismissive? Maybe. Unexpected? I'd hope not.
Darwine is a "private community"? "Second-class citizen in the Wine world"? Uh, yeah. I'm really feeling the love here.
You've misinterpreted a statement of fact as some kind of insult. Work that doesn't take place on wine-devel is invisible to most Wine developers, it's as simple as that.
Oh, wait. The award *did* get mentioned in Wine Weekly issue #311. Hmmm, except that not only is Darwine not in the subject line, it isn't mentioned at all. There is some whining that Wine didn't win though. Thanks guys.
Look, there are various reasons why some developers - and it seems maybe Marcus is in that group - are uncertain as to whether a Mac port is a good thing. This has been explained to you before. So why do you act shocked when an individual is "unsure whether to be happy or sad" over the news?
Lest you think I'm complaining here, I'm not.
You clearly are complaining, there's no other way to describe it.
-mike