Re: developer vs user wants

[Michael Cardenas <michael.cardenas@lindows.com>]

Just to follow up, I talked to my upstream contact at limewire and he
was very understanding. 

----- Forwarded message from Greg Bildson <gbildson@limepeer.com> -----

Reply-To: <gbildson@limepeer.com>
From: "Greg Bildson" <gbildson@limepeer.com>
To: "Michael Cardenas" <michael.cardenas@lindows.com>
Subject: RE: building limewire
Importance: Normal

Fine.  Loose the ads.

Thanks
-greg

-----Original Message-----
From: michael cardenas [mailto:mbc@rilke]On Behalf Of Michael Cardenas
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:32 AM
To: Greg Bildson
Subject: Re: building limewire


I figured out the clean, thanks.

Actually, ads.war isn't in cvs. I would like to ask you to consider
that debian users are not just users, most of them are developers. So,
by making this package available to people without ads, you will be
making a great impression on the developer community and may get lots
of free development and new traffic going to lw.org.

If you want me to include the ads, I will, but as debian usres are
going to hate it, and submit bugs against it, I'm going to make it a
run time option. My plan is to add an item in options or to make a
menu item.

I don't want to be confrontational at all, or give you the impression
that the community doesn't appreciate your use of the gpl, but the
user community won't want to see ads in software with code freely
available, and they will expect me to remove them.

thanks

  michael

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:08:32PM -0400, Greg Bildson wrote:
> make clean = ant clean.
>
> You probably need an ads.war file which is there until you run the program
> and then gets unpacked into lib/ads/*
>
> I'm not sure if the build.xml handles all of those.  http, messages and
> bitzi are fairly new and images is no code.  As far as I know, we don't
have
> a make install type thing in the public build.xml file.
>
> Thanks
> -greg
>
> From: michael cardenas [mailto:mbc@rilke]On Behalf Of Michael Cardenas
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 6:13 AM
> To: gbildson@limepeer.com
> Subject: building limewire
>
>
> Hi greg. I have a couple of questions for you about building
> limewire.
>
> I made a preliminary deb, but in the process encountered a few strange
> things.
>
> One is, I turned on the show_ads, but the ads aren't showing. Are the
> ad files in their own directory? Maybe I just need to do the
> equivalent of a "make clean". How do I do that?
>
> Also, it seems a few directories eren't moved into the installation
> directory I specified in my build.xml file. Are there some precompiled
> directories? The ones I'm talking about are
>
> http
> messages
> images
> bitzi
>
> They didn't get installed into the installation directory I
> specified. I probably just need to read the build.xml file more
> closely.
>
> thanks for your help
>
> michael
>

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michael cardenas
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lindows.com
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."
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michael cardenas
lead software engineer
lindows.com
.
hyperpoem.net
.
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi



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