Re: gEDA-user: gEDA DLL hell

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:19:23PM +0300, Charalampos Alexopoulos wrote:
> 
> > I don't care what are the 1000 reasons why gEDA must be unusable for
> > the user. People who aren't UNIX software packaging specialists want to
> > use it. Does it surprise you?
> 
> > If I take Orcad or Eagle, I run eagle.exe and Eagle is installed in
> > the system. If I want to deinstall, I go into Windows program list,
> > select deinstall Eagle, and it's deinstalled. The same with Orcad. If
> > I want to reinstall, I first uninstall and then install. Or the program
> > says "previous version of Orcad was detected. Should I overwrite it?"
> > 
> > If Eagle or Orcad developers were able to make it, then it's possible
> > to
> > make it. So don't tell me why it's not possible and please write
> > 
> > * installation manual
> > * deinstallation manual
> > * reinstallation manual
> > 
> > to the website.
> 
> Hi Karel
> 
> I think you have not understund how an open source project works.

Open source project means that the sources are open.

> An open source project is writen by people who did that in their spare
> time for fun and they are kind enough to share their job with other
> people. A user who face a problem in using that project trying to solve

Open source doesn't have anything to do how the sources are generated.
It only describes the licensing of the sources.

For example Linux kernel is developed partially by paid developers, who
don't write it in spare time for fun, but in their working time for
living. This is an counterexample on what you are saying proving that
what you are saying is not true.

CL<
> the problem and if he find a nice solution then usally give it back to the
> project to help other users. If the user is not capable to solve the
> problem then kindly ask for help, then somebody stoping his job and spend
> some time to help him so the user have to thank him for spending his time
> in trying to help no matter if his effort have good results or not.
> 
> Demanding things in an open source project is the most sure way to dont
> have a help, sometimes you may dont have a response at all.
> 
> Regards
> Charalampos Alexopoulos