Subj : Re: Polling - Still not a solution
To   : mark lewis
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Wed Oct 26 2016 08:03 am

-=> mark lewis wrote to rick christian <=-

 ml> while i tend to agree with some of your statements, it should be
 ml> pointed out that installaing from a package is one thing but when that
 ml> package has bugs that have already been fixed years ago, then filing a
 ml> bug report is not the proper thing to do... especially since some
 ml> packages lag several years behind... especially when the maintainers
 ml> have fixed the particular bug you may be filing a report against...

Yes, packages vary.  I will use a package where it's suitable for the task. 
The reasons I may not use a package are either (1) bugs, (2) the package is
simply too old, or (3) the package has been compiled with options unsuitable
for my intended use.  And of course, where there is no package.

 ml> no one is asking you to care about the code... many of us don't care
 ml> about it, either... one reason why we compile our own binaries is
 ml> specifically to stay up with the current bug fixes to ensure they are
 ml> fixed as well as possibly finding new ones and reporting them for
 ml> repair...

Yep, for me the code is just a means to an end.  The most I ever have to fiddle
with normally is a Makefile, except for one application, where I do have to
edit one of the C header files to change a definition to suit my setup.  C/C++
was never my language.  Pascal was more my thing back in the day, and is now
the language I'm intending to relearn.

 ml> i'm certainly not a C/C++ guy and i definitely do not dance to the tune
 ml> of makefiles but even i was able to figure out how to acquire and

Join the club! :-)

 ml> compile the necessary husky, golded and binkd stuff... hell, binkd was
 ml> the easiest one of all... the husky stuff was a bit of a twist because
 ml> of having to build X before Y finally followed by Z but the information
 ml> is there and i had it done in a short hour or two and without going
 ml> postal on anyone... it doesn't take very much to blur over a step
 ml> written in a conversational tone or to simply miss something mentioned
 ml> at the top of the given steps... we all know how easy it is to miss a
 ml> typo numerous times until someone sticks our nose in it ;)

I haven't tried compiling Husky or GoldEd yet.  Haven't had a need at this
time.  As my systems are headless, GoldEd is of less use than in the past, when
the BBS ran on my main desktop.  BinkD was dead simple to compile, I don't even
really remember doing it, though I must have.  Obviously, it was an
unremarkable compilation. :)


.... My day's ruined when I put my left sock on my right foot.
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49
 * Origin: Freeway BBS - freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)

.