[Android] dsixda:
Geez man, I was ready to go to bed and now I see this back-and-forth. Good grief, I can never get my 7 hours of sleep! :p I just spent several minutes trying to multi-quote and reply.. it doesn't work?

First of all, when I say someone is lazy, I'm joking around. Smiley faces and winkies don't mean anything to you?

Second of all, the other guy's "lazy" idea of resolving symlinks was considered for the release because it actually improves the kitchen, and provides a benefit to the ROM by correcting it.

As for your suggestion -- is it a necessary change? It basically only helps a handful of people who want a very specific task which can already be done with Interactive mode with very little inconvenience, if any. You came trollin' in here telling me what is Express, that the semantics don't make sense. And yes it's trolling, nobody really knows you and you're calling out people, not just me. I take everyone's suggestions seriously, I don't have much of an ego to shoot someone down because I think I have a better idea. In fact I was respectfully considering yours in the last release but then realized the bigger picture of it and the complexity. More on this later...

Now for your part about me being lazy, stupid and hypocritical. My reasons for making a decision on a suggestion was made clear in an earlier reply. I'm here to help newbies, I'm not here to complicate their lives with complex menus and a million instructions just to make one person's life a little simpler. Likewise I don't want to spend hours risking the script to be broken, trying to sort out what is Express, what is Regular, what is Extreme, what is Extensive, and how to set this variable so that the other options do not get screwed up, etc. And then I don't want to have someone else come in and say "Oh, why don't we zipalign, then prompt whether we want to convert to updater-script, then not sign it?" or "Why don't we zipalign, then convert it to update-script if it was updater-script already, then sign it if the ROM is under 80MB?" etc. And yes, if you've been visiting this thread before these kinds of questions happen all the time. If you keep adding options to the Build menu it looks like crap and it also screws up my scripts, so it's not worth the effort... even though I already put in the effort and ditched it..

You can call me lazy/stupid/hypocritical or whatever you want - my work speaks for itself, I have no more comment, but I don't appreciate you calling out and flaming others who made suggestions. Keep in mind also that your actions are against the Forum Rules and are not taken lightly. I think you're being overly sensitive to the culture around this thread. As proof of my laziness, I've been seeing a physiotherapist for the past few weeks because I've acquired carpal tunnel and tight wrist symptoms because I was a retard for spending almost every day in Feburary (and the months prior to Xmas holidays) on this project, staying awake till 2 a.m., and plus I have a office job on a computer all day. Why am I this crazy and risking my health? Because I am OC and I know there are people who rely on the kitchen, plus I don't want a mediocre product that kills ROMs and wastes people's time.

So if I skimp on a feature, then I am entitled to it, but it's not for lack of trying ;-P So cut me some slack and don't call me "lazy".

I am here because I love XDA and I like helping people. I know I can be grumpy, especially in the morning, and I'm sorry about that... but if you spend the last 14 months replying to the same old questions every single day, you do tend to get sick of it. Hey, at least I reply unlike most of these so-called 'devs'.

Back to the original point... The purpose of Express is for users to build a test ROM without wasting time signing it if they are just using it on their devices; in other words, the user needs to build a usable private ROM as fast as possible. Express = fast. It's a very commonly used option and provides benefit for many people; in fact i use it too. You missed out on the original discussion and are now raising a fuss about it a month later. You are likening it to a one-stop shop where you get everything done in one shot; however this is not what I wanted 'express' to mean. You're talking about American highways, where there's these annoying toll booths delaying you at every major point (and because I'm a brown guy with a suspicious last name they're meaner to me and they open my trunk. LOL nevermind.. It's just that I'm driving to the US border tomorrow and going for 7+ hours. Don't use that analogy.. please.)

Going to bed now.. and I'll try hard not to check my XDA app.