Bug#215647: [patch] xterm 4.3.0-0pre1v3 i18n
Hi,
From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#215647: [patch] xterm 4.3.0-0pre1v3 i18n
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:11:56 -0500
> You are presenting me with an ultimatum: accept your patch or else. You
> do not appear to feel there are any grounds upon which you will change
> your mind. This is not a sound basis for a rational discussion.
Please discuss. It is you who avoid discussion.
How do you think about the concept of locale? Please discuss
with the technical points. Why do you avoid concrete discussion?
It is easy. Please explain why my idea is inferior than yours
rationally. If you really think so, you can do it. Can't you?
Please explain why requiring editing app-defaults is better than
automatic locale detection, why uxterm approach is better than
locale, and so on. If you have a good reason which I didn't think
about, I will agree with closing this bug.
> Neither are your assertions that I "must" remove features from XTerm
> simple because I have made observations about its historical
> development. You'd get along famously with Eduard Bloch, who argues the
> same way.
Well, what is your intention you explained xterm's "historical
development"? I felt that you wanted to explain the reason why
xterm must not support multibyte encodings (because VT100 and so
on doesn't support it). Am I right? Then, from the exactly same
reason, you must remove features which VT100 and so on doesn't have
and xterm has. Of course I don't agree such an explanation and
I don't think you must remove such features.
I don't know Eduard Bloch.
> This bug will be fixed when upstream fixes it, or when a patch that
> upstream is comfortable with is submitted.
Please discuss on the concrete problems, though I am now discussing
with the upstream. Anyway, the patch is completely different from
the patch I sent to the upstream. How many times should I say this?
> Tagging "wontfix".
It is acceptable because there are chance for discussion or we
can refer the bug, but don't close. We must not hide problems.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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