Bryce Harrington-5 wrote:
Talk with ishmal about these - he's the official packaging guy for Windows so is the one that takes care of this.
Thanks for your help Bryce. Still looking at the fontfactory.h thing - I think it's an #ifdef win32 problem, but because I'm not a programmer I need some help.
About the packaging - I've tried emailing Ishmal several times to ask him about libs, both through the facility on Launchpad and via the email address used on this list, and I got no reply at all. I've tried raising the GTK stuff several times in the email lists, and again no reply.
I tried emailing another dev for clarification about the GTK thing, and got told that I should *never* email devs because they don't answer and it's considered rude. He said "keep public conversations public". But then I see others quoting from email conversations with other devs.
I've found this quite frustrating. There needs to be better communication than this, or some protocol or wiki page to help people know how to ask for advice. Even if a dev is too busy, perhaps they could just say that.
I know I had a rant a while back, and I said some things that were not at all justified, and for that I publicly apologise. I have learned to think more before emailing, but I hope that hasn't led to people not replying.