Following up on file-position locking

Posted Aug 13, 2023 19:59 UTC (Sun) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: Following up on file-position locking by willy
Parent article: Following up on file-position locking

> I think the onus here is actually on the Rust project to fix their mistake first.

This is unreasonable. You cannot unilaterally declare the use of Markdown "wrong" merely because you personally dislike it. If Rust wants to use Markdown, they can use Markdown.

Imagine if somebody filed a bug against your project saying "You shouldn't use Make [or Ant, or Maven, or...], because Bazel is much more expressive and powerful." You would WONTFIX it in a heartbeat, wouldn't you? This falls into the same category.

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Following up on file-position locking

Posted Aug 14, 2023 0:34 UTC (Mon) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (2 responses)

Bazel is awful. I'd rather not use software than try to build anything else ever again using Bazel.

But it seemed to me from the threads I read a while back that Rust were still trying to make a decision on switching to RST. What I was saying was that I'd rather wait than write Markdown now and switch it back to RST later. So your characterization of my position is entirely unwarranted.

Following up on file-position locking

Posted Aug 14, 2023 12:07 UTC (Mon) by jkingweb (subscriber, #113039) [Link]

> What I was saying was that I'd rather wait than write Markdown now and switch it back to RST later. So your characterization of my position is entirely unwarranted.

Respectfully, I think NYKevin was completely reasonable in interpreting your words at face value. If you meant to say X, don't say Y.

Following up on file-position locking

Posted Aug 14, 2023 15:15 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I feel like getting docs is the first step. Delaying it just continues the situation you yourself[1] have complained about. One can use `pandoc` to transform the comments if/when alternate syntaxes become supported (or at least get the bulk of the work done).

[1]https://lwn.net/Articles/941311/