Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>> address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:03:27 +0100
>> 
>> >I faced a similar disheartening intention (for quite different, but
>> >still political) reasons when I worked on bidi support.  I decided to
>> >disregard and proceed, and the result is before your eyes.
>> 
>> The crucial difference is that I could not have done this on my own, but
>> that I would have needed lots of help from the GCC project, most
>> importantly the willingness to actively support tooling based on GCC,
>> which in the end means opening up the compiler further.
>
> I think you greatly exaggerate your need

I see the claim of exaggeration wielded a lot here against those
actually doing the work and/or actually shouldering the consequences of
decisions.

This kind of condescension may even work for making them go away.

-- 
David Kastrup