Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/20/08 23:04

Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on 01/20/2008 01:56 AM Jerry Stuckle said the following:
>> You are obviously not able to step back and take an objective look at
>> your classes. I have tried to discuss much of this with you previously,
>> but you have consistently argued about unrelated things.
>>
>> I really don't feel like continuing this argument. Please let me know
>> when you can look at it objectively, and I will be happy to *discuss* it
>> with you.
>>
>> I will continue to recommend cURL for the reasons I have outlined. The
>> difference is I have no relationship with cURL, other than as a user of
>> the library.
>
> Jerry, never mind, this is not important for me.
>
> I am afraid you continue to avoid my points. You keep talking about
> arguing, discussing, A is better than B, competing. But I did not come
> here for that.
>

No, I made one statement - that cURL is more flexible. You keep brining
up completely irrelevant points in an attempt to argue your side.

> I am not interested in competition with you. For me, cooperating is
> better than competing.
>
> I am interested in spreading my class because the constructive feedback
> that I get from the users helps me to improve the class, so it will be
> better prepared for my present and future needs.
>

That's fine.

> You said you tried my class in the past. So I invited you to specify the
> limitations that you found on it. Unfortunately you avoided to be
> specific, and so, you failed to provide any constructive feedback.
>

I've tried. But you keep changing the subject. So I'm not going to
continue this any longer.

> You just made vague assertions about not being flexible without
> providing a real world usage that demonstrates where my class was not
> able to solve a problem that you had in accessing resources via HTTP.]
>
> When I demonstrated the limitations of relying on the Curl library, you
> basically just tried to minimize the problems or just ignored their
> relevance.
>

You didn't demonstrate any limitations of cURL. You did, however, show
how little you understand cURL.

> Maybe I am getting this wrong, but the impression that you are passing,
> at least to me, is that you really are not interested in helping, but
> rather want to minimize the work and participation of other people in
> this newsgroup, so your participation can prevail.
>

I'm not interested in helping you when you aren't interested in
discussing the topic at hand.

> The bottom line, is if you are not interested to be helpful and your
> interest is just competing with arguments, don't bother, I am not
> interested.
>
>


And quite frankly, with your attitude, I have completely lost interest
your HTTPClient class, and will neither use it nor recommend it to
anyone else.

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