Posted by Sven Gothel on Apr 20, 2012; 9:00am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/JOGL-Webstart-seems-to-be-broke-tp3345159p3925503.html

On 04/20/2012 01:18 AM, gouessej [via jogamp] wrote:
> Hi

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First of all, I completely agree with Julien's assessment, see below.

> Yes I wrote in various forums that JOGL 1 is no more supported, what's wrong
> with that? Mickael wrote something about profiles and new interfaces here:
> http://michael-bien.com/mbien/entry/jogl_2_opengl_profiles_explained

The source: <http://jogamp.org/jogl/doc/Overview-OpenGL-Evolution-And-JOGL.html>

> If you expect from other
> developers to always do lots of things to ease everything because you refuse
> solving problems by yourself, you will never become a pedagogically autonomous
> developer. Sometimes, I just want to say enough is enough.

In my long years of software development and life in general,
I got in touch [in this regard] with two types of people.
One is pro-active and the other often just destroys things due to
procrastination and negative remarks without the will to better the situation.
The passive folks often just ask how they can do this and that, and in case
no response in their liking is given they feel upset, as it is with your case
here.
IMHO it's always best to question yourself first than attacking the world.
Maybe given advise actually answers the questions you had, but you need to
think about them a bit harder?
Often a reply which doesn't contain certain information you requested
is itself valuable information - meaning it doesn't exist.

Then - you hardly will receive cooperation while yelling at folks,
or by being silent. It is for sure a fine line to walk and we all
often had near misses in this regard :)

IMHO a software engineer implies autonomy, you have to be able to
gather information, process them and apply it.
Usually this is the 'art' .. just using a language alone
won't help today anymore. It's all about putting the pieces together
and to communicate.

If you have valuable input for us, how we can do our part better,
you are more than welcome to give us your insights and ideas.
Maybe you even like to produce such information yourself ?

Cheers & all the best, Sven