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On 07/01/2016 07:50 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> On 2016-07-01 15:02 +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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>> Surely if there’s an ebuild in the tree, yet it needs patching, you |
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>> should be filing a bug to get the patch included. |
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> Even the patch is so horribly ugly that I cannot bring myself to do |
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> this. The program has a hardcoded list of bitmap fonts, and the |
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> particular fonts make it unusable on my huge screen; my patch replaces |
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> the list with other bitmap fonts, equally hardcoded but suitable for my |
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> environment. |
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> I really doubt that such a patch would be accepted. Or any patch, in |
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> fact; I half expect that the response would be "Why don't you just use |
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> the nice java-based cgoban2?" |
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Even poor patches are encouraged in bug reports, because a hacky patch |
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can be turned into a better one. Chewi and monsieurp have done a lot to |
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improve Java packages, but there are so many that they won't know which |
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ones need attention without a bug report. As far as I understand, we |
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generally recommend icedtea over Oracle's Java stuff. |
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