From: thestar@fussycoder.id.au
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:13:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Gerrit Code Review 2.0.3
Message-ID: <20090218111356.uabo6aff6ss00kcg@webmail.fussycoder.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <8c9a060902171306w5926c20ej439489de450e04f5@mail.gmail.com>

Quoting Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:44, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jacob Helwig wrote:
<snip>
>>>
>>> I've found IEs4Linux helpful for debugging IE-only issues under Linux.
>>>
>>> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
>>>
>>> I don't recall, off hand, if it'll provide IE 7 (and the site isn't
>>> working for me right now, so I can't confirm this).  It does provide
>>> IE 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0, however.
>>
>> If I understand Shawn (and the motto "scratch your own itch") correctly,
>> Shawn was not so much interested in being pointed to a way of running IE
>> himself, but more in people who absolutely want to run IE themselves to go
>> and fix the issues.
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Dscho
>>
>>
>
> Oh, I understand "scratch your own itch", but there's also a
> difference between unable to, and unwilling to. ;-)  I wouldn't have
> questioned it, or said anything, if it was simply put as: "Known
> issue, but we don't use IE, so it's not a priority for us.  Patches
> welcome."
>
> (Note: I'm not saying that Shawn should be willing to, just that he's
> not "unable" to. I also don't claim to know the full nuances of any
> possible licensing issues.)

I would've thought that impossible license situations would result in  
one being unable to use it.