Mark Williamson wrote:
Do you not realise that because of this, these changes
will not be
[snip]
Do you not realize that actual human beings have to expend time and
effort to make the software work at all? It doesn't happen by magic.
It's not as though the default state of the software is constant change,
and there's a bunch of nasty people sitting there stopping it from
moving. There is a limited amount of available developer time, and time
spent on one thing comes out of time that could be spent on another (bug
fixes, performance tweaks, maintenance, adding new wikis).
Unfortunately in this situation not everything gets done as quickly as
we might hope. Yes, that fact sucks, but it's a fact. One alternative
would be to slap up any old file and have things constantly break
completely because the files are wrong. When this happens people
complain at us, so we don't generally do that.
I'm sorry if explaining this fact and giving tips on how to get a
language file update accepted and installed faster has offended you.
Unfortunately I don't see you doing anything to help, like testing files
and checking them against the CVS branches. And I certainly don't see
you coding up an alternative message store system that would eliminate
most of the need to update syntax-sensitive code files (which is the
painful part). When you can do that, please post again and include
something helpful.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)