[37324] in SIPB bug reports
Re: th is completely useless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Aug 9 14:29:12 2010
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From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
cc: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>, "bug-sipb@MIT.EDU" <bug-sipb@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: th is completely useless
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 9 Aug 2010
> at 14:13:36 -0400 in <alpine.DEB.1.10.1008091412540.28982@dr-wily.mit.edu>:
>
>>> My inclination is to point out that it actually works on Solaris-Athena
>>> and if anyone cared about Linux they would have complained earlier.
>>
>> Wait, so you're not going to accept my bug report because I didn't report
>> it earlier? I would be offended if I understood the logic here.
>
> No. I was not speaking of accepting your bug report.
>
> You proposed we break a working platform in favor of the platform
> you were using. I take a very dim view of that.
>
> (in point of fact it's not necessary to break anything, but...)
OK, I still don't understand what you mean by "if anyone cared about
Linux", but whatever, sure. If you'd like to make it work in a
cross-platform way, please do; if not I'll do the simple thing to make it
work on all current Athena releases at some point late tonight.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
