Comment 39 for bug 215810

On Thursday 26,November,2009 01:24 AM, Gene Caldwell wrote:
> @Chow Loong Jin
>
> "What we don't like is people who just come in, yell about how it sucks
> and all, but not provide specific exam..."
>
> I have no problem with that statement, and actually agree that some end
> users could do a better job of expressing themselves. There does seem to
> be some presumed rights on the end users expectations. However, This
> still does not address the point I made, why get so lost in the details
> of what the end user did wrong ? The point of this post/ bug report is
> still that users are not able to share files. Its not what the user did
> wrong, its what the coder did wrong. Dependencies are not being checked.
> Stop telling the user he did something wrong or should have done
> something different when files sharing should have worked out of the box
> with no problems at all. It did not work out of the box, Thats why I
> jumped in to this.
Dependencies? As in nautilus-share depending on samba? Actually it does, as I
mentioned in my previous post. And I didn't say that the user did something
wrong, but instead I pointed the most straight-forward way you could have done
it, which incidentally the average user would have chosen immediately.
>
> I will be the very first to jump in and say thank you for scratching
> your itch and provide FREE code for this platform. However, in your
> code, would you at least check to see that dependencies are met ?
The original nautilus-share plugin expects that samba be installed. The
nautilus-share in Ubuntu has been patched to automatically install samba, as I'd
mentioned above, and before that even.
>
> I am not going to go back to 8.04 to see which command I HAD to run
> under a terminal to get file sharing to work correctly, it did not work,
> I moved on to a different release that works out of the box.
Come to think of it, I only picked up nautilus-share after 8.10's release,
though I'm pretty sure it did work well in the aspect PeterNZ was talking about
already. For one, samba auto-installation patch was already in the
nautilus-share package prior to me entering. I merely tidied it up, and fixed a
segfault or two.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer