Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:45:36 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@scsn.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <19970802184536.51442@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <16478.870558484@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sat, Aug 02, 1997 at 02:48:04PM -0700 References: <19970802165908.37359@scsn.net> <16478.870558484@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, Aug 02, 1997 at 02:48:04PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> No, I was stating that this was a *problem* in this discussion and
> that debating it on purely technical terms would miss that crucial
> point, not that emoting had some intrinsic value in this debate. I
> was in no way trying to suggest that you should get all emotional in
> turn - stick to your technical points, please. :-)
How can one stick to the technical points while simultaneously
somehow implicitly acknowledging that this is not strictly a technical
issue? I don't know enough linguistic contortions to manage an email
like that.
> Yes, and that's your opinion. Others have dissenting opinions or
> there would be no debate here. I'm just trying to make the point that
> pounding on the desk with your shoe is no way to bring the other side
> into agreement.
Agreed, emphatically... But there _was_ no debate on this issue, at
least none in a public forum. Tcl8.x just appeared out of nowhere.
(Actually, just prior to this, I was laboring under the apparent misap-
prehension that tcl was finally about to be removed from the base
distibution.)
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