[iyonix-support] Re: Problem installing Firefox-2-r2

In message <1d43edc24e.peter@xxxxxxxxxx>
          Peter Naulls <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> What a ridiculous conspiracy, and completely false.  RISC OS software
> _is_ hard to install.  My efforts haven't changed that.

OK, now I'm getting a bit fed up with your silly attitude. On the one 
hand you say FF is hard to install, yet on the other you chastise 
someone for making it easier. You argue both sides in the same 
discussion, rather than actually agree with anyone.

>> To return to your analogy of a water supply miles away. The reason I,
>> and many like me, carry buckets of water back and forth is because not
>> only do we not have a pipe, but we also wouldn't know how to construct
>> the pipeline. I, for one, welcome Paul's efforts to produce a
>> 'conveyor belt' for these buckets.
> 
> Again, Paul's effort is not this, by any stretch.

You are wrong. Paul's efforts are exactly that.

>> Can I appeal to you, then, as one of the few talented programmers RISC
>> OS has, to produce a Packaging Programme as your next project? Or to
>> offer your services to the 'RiscPkg' team to bring that to completion?
>> It's no good asking the likes of me, because although I'm more than
>> happy to test software, I am not a software author.
> 
> Thing is packaging is one of those things that _can_ be done by
> non-developers.

But you still refuse to say exactly, in detail and specifically, how. 
If you don't know how, how are we meant to know how. I'm sure many are 
willing to help, but without direction how can we?

> But again, you still miss the point.

Sadly, this seems to be your stock answer to any statement you can't 
discredit in other ways. Have you thought that if so many people 
continually miss your point, maybe the fault lies in the way you 
express that point?

> There remains a serious attitude
> problem, and you are trying to focus on specifics, when specifics such
> as packaging are only facets of doing things properly.

So you chastise developers for not helping, yet you, a developer, 
refuse to contribute either. That shows to me you are right - there is 
a serious attitude problem. You might be able to guess whose attitude 
I think is seriously at fault.

I'm sorry, Peter, you're so argumentative for the sake of it that I 
can't reason with you. I've tried politeness, I've tried reason, I've 
tried suggestions, but every time all you want is another argument.

I've already gone as far as I can in this discussion, but your 
unreasonableness is likely to drive me to abuse, so I will stop now as 
it will serve no purpose at all. You are undoubtedly an excellent 
programmer. You have immense skills few of us can even dream about. 
But you squander them with an attitude that defies logic.

-- 
Jeremy Brayshaw
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