On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:52:17AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Andre Poenitz wrote:
> >We (well, not actually me, but "The LyX Team") were about to release
> >something.
> 
> Obviously you include yourself in this "LyX Team" and you don't include me.

This obviousness escapes me.

> >All this multiple buffer stuff was actually accepted only
> >with reservations, so I would have been somewhat surprised if the people
> >busy with making the stated goal of 1.5 (internal unicode) a reality
> >would have diverted too much of their precious time to help
> >yet-another-feature-#52423 coming into existance.
> 
> Precious time of who? Unicode became a reality thanks to Lars, Georg and 
> me. Haven't see you around a lot... I can cite 10 developers that were 
> more active than you.

I wonder what part of "not actually me" might have been ambiguous.
Maybe "not actually I" is more correct English, but I don't really know.
Angus usually tells me if I ask politely.

> >[In fact I was surprised that it still made it into 1.5.0 given the
> >rather weird cursor behaviour in when using multiple views of the same
> >buffer - but that's another story...]
> 
> Obviously you still don't know what you are talking about. You should 
> try to question your intelligence someday. I am going to explain you 
> once again how this multiview came into existence: because of my cleanup 
> of the source. multiview was just the cherry on the cake. Saying that 
> this has slowed down the release is utterly ridiculous and stupid. And 
> saying that it was at the cost of other developers' time is even more 
> stupid.
> 
> Just because you made a lot of contribution in the past doesn't mean you 
> have the right to judge me or anyone else. I personally think that the 
> one who code is the one who decide. You did not code much in the last 18 
> months so your opinion really and definitely not important to me.

I understood your opinion a while ago even if my intelligence is waning.
I think, however, that what you state as your opinion is rather close to
some guiding principle that "we" try to adher to, not some law of nature
for which there is no exception.

Andre'

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