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- To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] Patch to remove insulting message in exkeys.c
- From: Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:44:08 +0200
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 17:33 +0200, Andrei Ellman wrote:
> The attatched patch changes the tone of the message exkeys.c responds
> with when they fail to press F6 when they are supposed to.
>
> I made the patch to make using exkeys.c a nicer experience. While it is
> a good thing for someone to not take too personally an insulting message
> generated by an example program, sadly, not everyone out there thinks
> that way. It is not the place of the Allegro development team to
> encourage people to gain more exposure to the harsh realities that lie
> 'out there'. And besides, no matter how funny an insulting message is,
> it can eventually become annoying. Hopefully, the new message shoud be
> non-insulting.
I agree. In fact, I proposed the very same change several years ago :)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1097955263.1523.32.camel%40allefant
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>