On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 03:59:18AM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: > > BTW, about the issue of programs breaking on 50 out of the 100 different > systems they normally run on: can't this be solved by some smart #ifdef's > in the code? I'd think that if you write a patch that adds a good feature > while not breaking other things, most upstream authors will accept it.
Sure, if it does not conflict with any of the other 250 #ifdef's you have in to support all 100 operating systems (from zx spectrum [does anyone remember those? I have one, is it valuable?] to Alpha station) ;) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
