Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:53:17PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
> > John W. Eaton wrote:
> > > On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote:
> > > > Clearly, developers make a huge contribution,
> > > > nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute
> > > > and everybody else should therefore just shut up
> > > I never said everyone else should "just shut up".  My point was that
> > > if you aren't contributing in some way, then you shouldn't expect your
> > > complaining to carry much weight.  The way to get things done is to do
> > > the work, not just complain and hope that people do something for you.
> > ...or offer money. That carries more weight than complaining. :-)
> >
> > However that doesn't work in all cases. This I am reasonably confident 
> > is one of them. But as a general rule...
>
> No, it would work in this case, but I hesitate to name my price since
> it will surely make me sound even more evil.

Ok, I thought I'd heard somewhere in a thread on this topic that you 
wouldn't do it for $$ in this instance. Apologies if my memory is 
faulty. :-)

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Matthew
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