It makes me sick!

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 29.07.2017 23:52, FoxyBrown wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 July 2017 at 21:48:09 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 28.07.2017 23:30, FoxyBrown wrote:
>>>
>>> because you didn't want to spend 10 minutes to fix a program.
>>
>> You need to realize that the same thing applies to you. There is no 
>> "us" vs "you". I.e. if you know it to only be 10 minutes of work, why 
>> don't you just fix it yourself? Mike currently has as many commits in 
>> DMD as you do, and he is already busy contributing in other ways.
>>
> 
> EXACTLY! Your problem is that you are taking the you vs me too literal. 
> I am talking about a mentality people have that think that them saving 
> 10 minutes by not implementing something that will save 10 hours(low 
> estimate) for everyone else is a good thing and criticize people when 
> they say there is a better and try to condemn them and continue the 
> status quo that wastes more time.
> 

Personally, I expect a minimal amount of consistency. I.e. when someone 
criticizes something, I only take them seriously when they don't go on 
to indulge in the very behavior they criticize.

Also, Mike was not showing this mindset. Mike was saying it is not 
reasonable to expect being able to manually and somewhat carelessly 
juggle around the files of the installation on the file system and only 
get expected behaviour. Everything else is your own interpretation.

Note that there are a lot of things that anyone could work on that saves 
them or someone else a lot of time, and not everyone agrees on 
priorities. I think it is safe to assume that it was not laziness that 
led to the current behaviour, but that it was just an oversight.