Re: Problem with CON_DISCONNECT

From: Ryan Gasper or Steven Arnold (dalamar@CYBERCOM.NET)
Date: 03/18/98


On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Daniel Koepke wrote:

> Certainly sounded like a snap to me.  To paraphrase with some degree
> of accuracy, "...release bpl13 and start working on bpl14..." (and
> that's not taken out of context).  I realize that he probably didn't
> mean to come across that way, but he did.

        Well, then you have a strange way of interpreting things. Still
does not look like a snap to me (FYI: I was not the one to write the
original message)

> First, don't state _my_ opinion for me, I believe I am fairly
> articulate and capable of conveying my point without your help.

        What are you talking about? "Unlike you" is stating your opinion
for you? Get off it.

> Second, I would rather spend 5 months working on making my game better
> than 5 months adding a new patch every week or two.  If you've made it
> to this point with all of those horrible bugs and appalling
> inefficiencies that required half of CircleMUD to be rewritten over a
> 5 month span, you'll survive the little extra time and effort it'll
> take you to update things.

        Survive it yes, but its ridiculous patching in a 407k patch by
hand. A bpl should not get that big.

> The solution to this debate is already at hand, however.  George has
> been more than willing to provide patches of bpl13 functionality.  So
> I really don't see why you feel the overwhelming need to put George
> and Jeremy into a more uncomfortable situation (reality check: they
> are real people with real lives) and change a tried-and-true method.

        An uncomfortable position? I am not following your logic at all. I
realize George said he'd backport and include the major fixes on his page.
But why even go through that? Just release smaller bpls. That would be
less work for all... unless you get uncomfortable with less work.

> And, BTW, I'm sick of all this "Cathedral"-BS.  People are not boolean
> values, so stop trying to classify them as 0 or 1.

        I never mentioned Cathedral anything, I take it you arenot
responding to me here?

> -dak : forgive me if I sound pissed-off at everyone...

        Learn to control yourself better then.

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