From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Compiling Emacs with GTK Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:02:57 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: References: <1109374083.5314.29.camel@c83-250-206-153.bredband.comhem.se> <20050226001320.97945.qmail@web26605.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <87vf8f5pj5.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109437375 17027 80.91.229.2 (26 Feb 2005 17:02:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 26 18:02:55 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D55K2-0007Oy-Ks for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:01:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D55c2-0008Hg-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:20:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: individual.net QKfIW/QS9kemHby2brxNFQ7StxM/cMVd5B55A1BryNrfhmuSMm X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pNAb43pP/iko7RTcBkixwkpRt60= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128842 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24382 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24382 nfreimann writes: > David Hansen wrote: > >>Is it that difficult to ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk ? > > David, imagine for a moment, that there are *some* users out there > who are not familiar with "C" development, having not all > development libraries installed, or are otherwise unwilling doing > time consuming builds. So why should the developers be more willing to do that sort of thing than the users of the software? Imagine for a moment that there are *some* people out there without the same sort of income as you are. Does that mean that they are entitled to the contents of your fridge, just like you feel that users should be entitled to the time of the developers, time they are neither willing to spend themselves nor willing to pay for? > If there is only a windows cvs emacs binary available then these > users clearly will prefer windows. Thats the price to pay for > arrogance and ignorance. Well, I could hardly imagine anyone more suitable for quoting prices on that. Anyway, imagine for a moment that there are *some* users out there who actually do immerse themselves into what it takes to be a productive member of the community, preparing careful bug reports, helping with reading the manual, suggesting useful features. Would it not be an extreme disservice to those users if the developers wasted their time on pampering for the transitory needs of the ungrateful, thus never getting the next release out? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum