[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Drop support for gcc-2.95

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:39:16AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:14 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:59:55AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > > That's hardly a reason...
> > 
> > It is a reason, combined with the next line ..
> > 
> > > > minority that sees a reason to stop doing that.
> > 
> > .. that you seem to have cut from your quote.
> 
> I did not "cut" anything from my quote. I _did_ include that line in
> what I quoted. I replied to the first part alone because it was a silly
> reason whether "combined" with anything else or not.

"cut" was the wrong word, you took half a sentence out of context.

> > > > Now drop this silly subject and stop wasting everybody's time, including
> > > > your own.  Several seasoned developers have spoken up in favor of
> 
> > > > Please stop flaming now, this is getting nowhere.  I'm sure Rich will
> > > 
> > > I don't think I've been flaming except in some mails with Rich, the
> > > recent ones of which haven't been directly about dropping gcc-2.95
> > > support anyway.
> > 
> > Then find another word for it.  You're flogging a dead horse here and
> > going nowhere, yet you continue with the subject for no good reason.
> > Call it flaming, trolling or whatever you wish, but please just stop it.
> 
> I get the impression that you're mixing up the C-related mails I've
> exchanged with Rich with mails talking about 2.95 support. Either that
> or you're just overreacting with "wasting everybody's time, flogging a
> dead horse, flaming, trolling".

As I said, call it whatever you wish, just please end this discussion.
It's clearly going nowhere and you are clearly in the minority.
Continuing the discussion just causes annoyance and waste of time.

Please just let it go, thank you.

Diego