From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Too many warnings building Emacs with GCC 6 on MSYS2-MinGW64 Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:50:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <50083875-fbf6-d6b2-ffac-08c17c2bc696@alice.it> <83r395ko7o.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9a1kks6.fsf@gnu.org> <834m60ls36.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472755901 5860 195.159.176.226 (1 Sep 2016 18:51:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 18:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 01 20:51:34 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bfX5B-0008NJ-Bh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:51:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfX59-0007ru-4Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:51:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfX51-0007qm-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfX4z-0003PY-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfX4O-0003H7-RG; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bfX4O-0002rd-71; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:50:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <834m60ls36.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:18:53 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207093 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Really I already did this with this simple test case: > I couldn't know you did that already, could I? It would have been better to say, That was good. Too bad it didn't resolve the problem as we hoped it would. I think you interpreted "Really I already did this with this simple test case" as a rebuke to you: "Don't criticize me for not trying that test case! I DID try it!" So you defended yourself by saying that you couldn't possibly have known he had tried it. That defense is valid -- but instead of defending yourself, it is much better to praise/thank him for doing the right thing. It will also defend you, because people will see you did not know he had not tried that test. Indeed, it will defend you _better_ than what you actually said, because people will admire you for that positivity and constructiveness. I have had to learn to do this, over the years, and I have not learned 100%. I still don't always manage to do it. But I often do, and that helps me get better outcomes. You can learn too. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.