No way is it boring! I spent the past two days on an *epic* bughunt in a large multithreaded codebase, at one point even using programmatically set processor breakpoints to trap the point where some bits got corrupted by another thread, and, and... Oh wait... Hmmm, I think I get your point...
But you could even try to optimize it. Convert it to byte or machine in run time, or something.
If you think it's all so damn straightforward and easy, why don't you submit a patch?
Oh, but you don't write code? You don't wish to spend your own time on it? You're just too bloody lazy?
Living in a large country doesn't require you to travel back and forth from one end to the other every bloody day, either, does it? Have you ever considered finding a job closer to home?
Oh, and spare us the hollow 'you socialists suck' rethoric, it's getting old and boring.
I'm so glad that control over the internet rests firmly with the US. For a while, I was worried that an international democratic process was going to be involved in decisions about stuff like this.
I must say that MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) is a very good SDK, at least when considering the Platform SDK (albeit for a terribly inconsistent API).
Search, Index, and cross-reference are all well-implemented, consistently formatted, and complete, and updated fairly often. Combined with a choice of format (HTML help or web browser of choice - even Firebird works well), it is a pleasure to use.
You seem to imply that the motivation makes any difference. Why does it matter to someone who has to do forced labour what is done with the resulting product ? It is forced labour regardless Now, you might argue that the conditions under which they labour are different, and you might have a point.
I agree that sometimes applications break due to differences between certain system components.
However, the number of applications that simply break 'cause the version checking code is faulty, combined with the number of apps that works pretty well except for some obscure functionality no one ever needs is large enough to warrant configurable version reporting for Wine and its subcomponents.
At least, when an application fails on a version check, I can then try to run it in the 'desired' environment, before giving up immediately...
Most apps that cause problems are simply too moronic to do a sane version check, and cannot deal with higher version numbers, but will work properly as long as you can make the emulator pretend it is version X, where X is the expected version for that app.
Marriott: IBM can produce the Dynix code and did so as of yesterday.
IBM can also produce the derivative code, but IBM will not, unless compelled to, provide all 40 million lines of AIX code.
K. McBride: We want all 40 million lines of code. We will give it to our experts so they can digest it.
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No way is it boring! I spent the past two days on an *epic* bughunt in a large multithreaded codebase, at one point even using programmatically set processor breakpoints to trap the point where some bits got corrupted by another thread, and, and... Oh wait... Hmmm, I think I get your point...
But you could even try to optimize it. Convert it to byte or machine in run time, or something.
If you think it's all so damn straightforward and easy, why don't you submit a patch?
Oh, but you don't write code? You don't wish to spend your own time on it? You're just too bloody lazy?
Sheesh...
Living in a large country doesn't require you to travel back and forth from one end to the other every bloody day, either, does it? Have you ever considered finding a job closer to home?
Oh, and spare us the hollow 'you socialists suck' rethoric, it's getting old and boring.
Sometimes, comments really, really deserve the (+6, coke on keyboard) mod...
> I hope I live as long as I can!
;)
Don't worry about it, I'm pretty sure you will
I'm so glad that control over the internet rests firmly with the US.
For a while, I was worried that an international democratic process
was going to be involved in decisions about stuff like this.
Thankfully, I can see it is still in good hands.
My god...
I must say that MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) is a very good SDK,
at least when considering the Platform SDK (albeit for a terribly inconsistent API).
Search, Index, and cross-reference are all well-implemented, consistently formatted,
and complete, and updated fairly often. Combined with a choice of format
(HTML help or web browser of choice - even Firebird works well), it is a pleasure to use.
You seem to imply that the motivation makes any difference. Why does it matter to someone
who has to do forced labour what is done with the resulting product ? It is forced labour regardless
Now, you might argue that the conditions under which they labour are different, and you might have a point.
That's telephone sanitizer to you buddy !
I agree that sometimes applications break due to differences between certain system components.
However, the number of applications that simply break 'cause the version checking code is faulty,
combined with the number of apps that works pretty well except for some obscure functionality no
one ever needs is large enough to warrant configurable version reporting for Wine and its subcomponents.
At least, when an application fails on a version check, I can then try to run it in the 'desired' environment,
before giving up immediately...
I respectfully disagree.
Most apps that cause problems are simply too moronic to do a sane version check, and cannot deal with higher version numbers,
but will work properly as long as you can make the emulator pretend it is version X, where X is the expected version for that app.
I don't have Perl, you insensitive clod !
#include "cstdio"
void bindecode(char const* psz)
{
while(*psz)
{
for(char i = 0, ch = 0; i < 8; ++i)
ch = ch * 2 + *psz++ - '0';
printf("%c", ch);
}
}
From the preliminary transcripts on groklaw:
Marriott: IBM can produce the Dynix code and did so as of yesterday.
IBM can also produce the derivative code, but IBM will not, unless
compelled to, provide all 40 million lines of AIX code.
K. McBride: We want all 40 million lines of code. We will
give it to our experts so they can digest it.
conjures up images, doesn't it ?