I hate you all

[Walter Hurry]

On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:00:06 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>> On 2013-04-08, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at lavabit.com> wrote:
>>> The fact of Python enforcing it (or all tabs; a poor second choice)
>>> is *a good thing*, easy and natural IMHO. No need for "end if" or "end
>>> loop" or "fi". One wonders whether OP is simply trolling.
>>
>> If he was trolling, he certainly deserves a prize.
> 
> I don't think he was trolling. It was a classic-model rant: "I upgraded
> my dependency to a newer version and all my stuff broke".
> Commonly provokes anger, largely because many such upgrades do NOT break
> stuff (eg if I were to switch from gcc 4.5 to gcc 4.7 right now,
> I doubt anything would break, and my code would be able to use the new
> iterator syntax in c++11 - pity 4.7 isn't packaged for Debian Squeeze).
> The OP upgraded across an openly-non-backward-compatible boundary, and
> got angry over one particular aspect of backward compat that wasn't
> there.

But wouldn't it have been easier simply to do do a quick sed or whatever 
rather than to spend hours here arguing?