tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647814752446097280.post3591084539069551453..comments2019-08-20T09:24:08.390+01:00Comments on Cide by Cide: Building POCO C++ with MingwPaulo Caetanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03574085197537324973noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647814752446097280.post-67983839092224582812013-02-04T11:04:51.002+00:002013-02-04T11:04:51.002+00:00You're absolutely right.
I did submit patches...You're absolutely right.<br /><br />I did submit patches a couple of times:<br />- for some examples on libssh2.<br />- for a fix in a problem in one of POCO's logging classes, when a log file rolls over.<br /><br />AFAIK (I stopped following those), those patches went nowhere. Granted, those weren't even close to being top priority issues, but for a beginner like me, it still took time dive into the sources, understand (part of) what was going on, and work out a fix (which, I accept, may be of debatable quality).<br /><br />And I did it on my time. This is a personal learning experience, for which I'm not getting paid.<br /><br />The value of the work that's freely given to the world by OSS is unquestionable, and I am thankful for that (and, rereading what I wrote, I admit I should've been more explicit on this). If I didn't believe so, I wouldn't have turned to it (thankfully, I have money to spend on commercial tools, if I so desire).<br /><br />At the end of the day, I still chose to work with POCO C++, and I still spent my personal time figuring out how to build it on Windows with mingw. I wouldn't have done it if I thought it had no value.<br /><br />So, you give hours of your free time, and, yes, that is appreciated. I did the same (on a tiny scale, naturally), and I hope to continue doing it to the best of my ability. However, that won't keep me from pointing what I consider flaws on someone else's work, and it certainly shouldn't stop anyone from doing the same with my work.Paulo Caetanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03574085197537324973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647814752446097280.post-21742827752718505912013-02-04T04:46:12.231+00:002013-02-04T04:46:12.231+00:00Did it occur to that you could help "people b...Did it occur to that you could help "people behind OSS" scratch your itch. We give hours of our work for free and it's still not enough?Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06746019091073466034noreply@blogger.com