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I thought we left the idea of "you can't complain about something unless you built it yourself" way behind us. That's not a constructive way to talk about anyth

I thought we left the idea of "you can't complain about something unless you built it yourself" way behind us. That's not a constructive way to talk about anything. I can't write a "hello world" in Clojure, but I still know it's a trivial thing to do. If someone was bragging to me about their hello world and I said "that's really simple", should they respond back "So you contributed to my hello world, right?" I'm not the one claiming I'm a great developer. I don't have anything to prove.

pmoriarty 10y ago
There's constructive criticism, which is usually welcomed, and then there are just plain complaints. Alleging that the uniform transport tool is simple to code helps no one. It just expresses the author's disdain for the accomplishments of volunteers who added a feature to a free and open source tool. If he thought it was so simple, he could have actually spent a few minutes to help a project which everybody can see needs help, instead of sneering at it. That would have been constructive.
- throwanem 10y ago
  > a few minutes Have you looked at the GIMP wiki's "how to build" pages lately? The build environment is quite complex, especially if you're doing cross-platform builds, and between the "work in progress" disclaimer and the fact that nobody's paid much attention to those pages this year, I have a strong feeling that following those directions as written doesn't result in a working build env. If you're already a GIMP dev, sure, it might be a few minutes. If you're not, it's probably going to be more like a few hours, more or less depending on whether anyone who can help is paying attention to IRC, just to get to the point where you can start hacking on it at all. That's a lot of time and irritation to invest.