From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Lee Green To: "David C. Mason" , esr@thyrsus.com Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools... Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: <00070616070800.15706@ehome.inhouse> References: <200007041511.LAA15779@snark.thyrsus.com> <20000706180129.C26696@thyrsus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00036.html Message-ID: <20000706155700.wHLFUsBKPvNPrQJc-TIAODDl3mTbmNkBbZrYnfqAFTs@z> On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, David C. Mason wrote: > What a gentleman like approach to telling me you worked on it. Welcome to the Open Source world :-). If we weren't passionate, we wouldn't do it. And when the tools suck, we do one of two things -- use different tools, or fix the tools. In my case, I'm using different tools for my next project, ones that I know are reliable and work correctly. I have a sneaking suspicion that ESR's passion here is going to lead him to fixing the tools, but on the other hand, he may have concluded that his contributions aren't welcome in the SGML community, because they don't meet some purity test (i.e., they're practically oriented, rather than being pretty, theoretical, and utterly useless). -- Eric Lee Green There is No Conspiracy eric@badtux.org http://www.badtux.org