Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-22 Thread John Emmas
On 22 Jul 2012, at 20:44, Simon Feltman wrote: > It does not really matter how developer discussions take place as long as > they are documented and searchable. Transparency of reasoning behind > decisions is just as important as the decision for anyone trying to > understand the code base. For

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-22 Thread Simon Feltman
It does not really matter how developer discussions take place as long as they are documented and searchable. Transparency of reasoning behind decisions is just as important as the decision for anyone trying to understand the code base. For medium and large development, I advocate for something lik

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-22 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:20 AM, John Emmas wrote: > On 22 Jul 2012, at 02:14, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> >> I consider web-based forums to be the scourge of the internet. >> > > Curiously, that's exactly how I feel about mailing lists. Mailing lists work > well as long as the volume of traffic

Re: Some questions regarding GObject-Introspection

2012-07-22 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi there, please provide a call stack. mike On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Fan Chun-wei wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to build G-I on Windows using MSVC, and managed to get the > GLib-2.0.gir file to be built by g-ir-scanner (used the gcc preprocessor as > MSVC does not accept input from stdin

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-22 Thread John Emmas
On 22 Jul 2012, at 15:02, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 07/22/2012 04:20 AM, John Emmas wrote: >> That's been my experience anyway. > > With no facts stated to support your response, it is merely your > opinion. My opinion is also just an opinion > Michael - you're right to say that both viewpoi

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-22 Thread Dieter Verfaillie
On 22/07/2012 16:02, Michael Torrie wrote: On 07/22/2012 04:20 AM, John Emmas wrote: That's been my experience anyway. With no facts stated to support your response, it is merely your opinion. My opinion is also just an opinion, however I believe the points in support of my opinion are factua

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-22 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/22/2012 04:20 AM, John Emmas wrote: > That's been my experience anyway. With no facts stated to support your response, it is merely your opinion. My opinion is also just an opinion, however I believe the points in support of my opinion are factual and logical (which you haven't refuted). C

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-22 Thread John Emmas
On 22 Jul 2012, at 02:14, Michael Torrie wrote: > > I consider web-based forums to be the scourge of the internet. > Curiously, that's exactly how I feel about mailing lists. Mailing lists work well as long as the volume of traffic is relatively low. They probably also work well if you're a