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Lionel DebrouxLe 19/04/2010 à 15:21
All this is irrelevant once you have the stuff built

The irrelevant thing is your comment: we're talking precisely about these scripts that build stuff, not about what happens "once you have the stuff built".
And besides, end users should be using binary packages anyway. SFX archives are a very poor substitute for proper packages. [...] [Binary tarballs] tend to be very distro-specific anyway

In the real world, many users cannot use proper binary packages, because these don't exist, due to extreme fragmentation across distros in packaging schemes, and few people investing time in making a package for a specialist tool.
That state of fact is precisely why build scripts with error handling (and even, in a second step, a proper unified build system for *nix, at the very least Makefile-based) are useful.
3. he refused to accept that TIGCC is not a Debian-native package and that he needs to do the packaging separately from the upstream source code, so he just removed the packages :-/).

I'd rather say 3. he made a mistake once or twice in the usage of that highly sucky CVS tool, committed the Debian files where he shouldn't have, and you used this as a pretext to remove his commit access (no matter he was already working on TIGCC running on *nix before you came in) => no wonder he didn't keep packaging your stuff after that.
Yes. Your changes don't actually make it easier for me to do a release.

Don't be so centered on yourself. Even in case they'd be useless to you (I can't see how having cross-compilation support built-in the scripts, as opposed to having to run it on a tool-by-tool basis, would not help, but whatever), they're obviously useful to us, and that's what matters.
They don't solve the actual problems I have, like having to get the Delphi parts built somehow.

Well, you're the one to blame if this is a problem for you wink
If you weren't such a pain to deal with, more people - starting with myself - would still be working with you. It takes years, but people get tired of someone refusing many ideas (technical matters, and life in general, are not black-and-white, they're shades of gray, see http://tichessteamhq.yuku.com/reply/32850/t/ttunpack-decompress-gray.html#reply-32850 ), disregarding user input (removing VTI support...), and otherwise mishandling a project that used to be cooperative.