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Subject: Re: The tainted message
From: Richard Thrapp <rthrapp@sbcglobal.net>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Date: 27 Apr 2002 21:14:19 -0500
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Keith, I apologize for my rash words.  I clicked send before I cooled
down, and I should know better.  I care a lot about my work.  I am
sorry.

On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 20:41, Keith Owens wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2002 20:27:07 -0500, 
> Richard Thrapp <rthrapp@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 19:27, Keith Owens wrote:
> That is one of the many costs you have to bear for shipping binary only
> modules.  I am not going to make life easier for you.  In your original
> message to me you made no mention of the fact that you are shipping
> binary only modules, if I had know that in advance I would not have
> tried to help you, now you have no credibility with me.

I thought it was pretty obvious that I was shipping a non-GPL module
(not binary-only).  But that is not my only interest.  I have given time
and thought to many open source projects.  I genuinely wanted a more
informative error message.

> >At the very least, -please- change the verb tense of the message to be
> >correct.  That will at least eliminate the "module doesn't load" bug
> >reports (I hope).
> 
> The verb tense is correct.  The message is issued before the module is
> loaded and descibes what is about to occur.

>From the point of view of the user, who sees the message after the
module is loaded, it is incorrect and implies that the module wasn't
loaded.

-- Richard Thrapp


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