[Bug 529496] Review Request: libmtag - An advanced C music tagging library with a simple API

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--- Comment #50 from Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> 2010-01-13 13:57:10 EST ---
(In reply to comment #48)
> (In reply to comment #36)
> > Why do you have to assume the worst?
> As I wrote before: The way this review proceeds speaks for itself.

Let's be clear: you are assuming either I don't know what I'm doing here, or I
don't care enough to try my own stuff. Either way it's not only a wrong
assumption (I did test my stuff), but it's offensive.

> > Maybe you should try to think of another
> > non-antagonist option (hint: 64).
> Pardon? It's a reviewer's job to test your work and to point out your bugs.

But that's not what you did; after you pointed out the problem, then you
implied I didn't even test my own stuff: that doesn't serve any purpose other
than to offend.

> If you didn't test on 64bit platforms, this is your fault.

If by "test" you mean build, install, and run tests; then I disagree. It's
impossible to do this for every platform out there.

If what you mean is to just build on Koji, then perhaps, but I was never told
it was a *requirement* only that it would be nice.

In any case, I didn't deny there was a problem, or tried to deflect my fault;
all I did was to object to your offensive comment.

> > > Well, you are not the first person who is outsmarting himself by using
> > > handwritten makefiles.
> > 
> > That's an uncalled for assumption, and ad hominem attack.
> No, it's 20 years of SW development experience.

Your experience can give you statistical guidance to assume that *probably* I'm
shooting myself in the foot here, but that's not what you said. You didn't show
any doubt that I was outsmarting myself, without knowing anything about me;
that's a fallacy of accident.

> As I tried to tell you before, you are not the first persoon who is switching
> to manually written makefiles without being aware about the bugs and short
> comings his approach carries - There have been generations of programmers
> before you.

I maintain multiple widely used packages that don't use autotools, and in each
one of them I've found it's significantly easier to deal with, even on multiple
platforms (which I test) like: i386, arm, and mingw32.

Besides, I'm encouraged by good examples (IMO) of packages that don't use
autotools: git, qemu, ffmpeg.

Your FUD doesn't scare me. 

> > What do you even know about me?    
> Well, to me, it's apparent that you are at the very beginning of getting
> started with packaging and system integration.    

You are wrong, I maintain important packages on the Nokia N900 (debian based):
http://maemo.gitorious.org/maemo-multimedia/gst-dsp
http://maemo.gitorious.org/maemo-multimedia/gst-openmax
http://maemo.gitorious.org/maemo-multimedia/dsp-tools

But that was actually a rhetorical question: it doesn't matter what you think
about me; the choice of not using autotools resides completely on upstream, and
is not something to be discussed in this review request.

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