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Re: A new parallel buld patch
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 02:27:42PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 18, 2000, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:19:27AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> >> In message <200005180437.AAA27608@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com>you write:
> >> > Below is the patch from HJ's URL for which HJ seems incapable of
> >> > emailing directly, documenting, explaining, providing a ChangeLog
> >> > description, or sending to the proper mailinglist. Sigh.
> >> Typical HJ. I'm not going to try and decipher what the patch does. I
> >> know Zack tried and indicated the patch had a number of problems.
>
> >> I do not recommend installing it.
>
> > I had enough. Alexandre, I want to withdraw my patch.
>
> Please don't. Jeff wrote that before reading the rest of the
> discussion. And, at that point in the sequence of events, his comment
I believe he did that on purpose. He posted his email several hours
after we had concluded that my updated patch was ok.
> was totally valid. It's unfortunate that the relationship between the
> two of you has got to this point, but it will take some cooperation
> from both of you to restore the situation to one in which we can make
> progress together.
>
> Jeff has just gone out of your way, by saying that other maintainers
> should deal with your patch(es?). You had already taken a step in the
That is only because he had no choices. What else could he do? It
has happened before. I have saved emails to back it up.
> right direction, by adjusting your patch to a format that is
> acceptable by the community of GCC maintainers.
>
> Let's please keep on this effort for cooperation. I'm sure it's worth
> it.
I had more than enough with Jeff. I don't want to deal with him
anymore.
H.J.