Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Matt Rice
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM, David Ayers  wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 23:52 -0500 schrieb Gregory Casamento:
>> The attached test program does not crash on Mac OS X when the button
>> is pressed, but does crash on GNUstep.  The button calls the "action:"
>> method in Controller which immediately throws an exception.
>>
>> I believe this confirms that GNUstep's behavior is inconsistent with
>> Cocoa.   I can test on OpenStep, but I suspect that the behavior is
>> the same there as it is on Cocoa.
>
> FWIW, IIRC this inconsistency was intentional an I believe for a very
> good reason.  I thought we had documented it at the time but I can't dig
> it up easily right now.
>
> An uncaught exception indicates that the application is in an undefined
> state.  For certain type of applications (like viewers) this can be
> ignored.  For editor application this could mean that the document being
> edited could be corrupted and saving it cause data corruption.
>
> This thread is the only reference I found in which we suggested some
> type of "Developer-Mode" which indicates that "I know what I'm doing,
> let me debug, will you?!".
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2004-10/msg00092.html
>
> I still believe that handling generic handling of exceptions in the
> runloop is a dangerously wrong and an implementation detail that we
> shouldn't try to be compatible with.  But others may disagree.

I definitely agree with this, but wanted to toss out another point of
view in the same vein
in an editor application, say that there is an exception when working
with a single document
(i'm seeing something in DBModeler when closing certain documents
which I haven't managed to fix yet unfortunately)

so i'm getting an exception when an error occurs in a single document,
but the entire application crashes, now i should probably add some
exception handling somewhere (not exactly sure where, probably all
over the place...) to my app but haven't figured out where yet, but
until I do, an exception in a single document means that all open
documents close, and could potentially lose changes in other unsaved
documents which are open.


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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald


On 5 Feb 2009, at 07:23, Gregory John Casamento wrote:


Richard,

"True.  Such applications are fundamentally badly designed/buggy,  
but it generally doesn't win you any friends to say so."


That could be true, but I don't believe, however, that GNUstep  
should fail where Cocoa recovers.


I'm sure David's point was that, at the moment, GNUstep limits damage  
where Cocoa trashes things.  It's not at all true to say that GNUstep  
fails and Cocoa recovers ... more true to say that cocoa hides bugs  
and often gets away with it.


Anyway, we should implement the NSExceptionMask user default and the  
issue then becomes irrelevant as we can control which behavior we want  
for a particular application.



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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Richard,

"True.  Such applications are fundamentally badly designed/buggy, but it 
generally doesn't win you any friends to say so."

 
That could be true, but I don't believe, however, that GNUstep should fail 
where Cocoa recovers.

The fact of the matter is that differences like this fundamentally impact 
portability between Cocoa/OpenStep and GNUstep.

"In truth the best behavior depends on the circumstances ...
probably it's more often good to keep running in a gui app, as there is
a human being there to notice the problem, and it's generally best to
abort in any other circumstances, to minimise the damage that might be
caused."

Agreed.

Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc 
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer





From: Richard Frith-Macdonald 
To: Gregory John Casamento 
Cc: David Ayers ; Gregory Casamento ; 
Adam Fedor ; Developer GNUstep 
Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 1:49:54 AM
Subject: Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...


On 5 Feb 2009, at 06:15, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> David,
> 
> Simply because an exception is thrown and not caught does not necessarily 
> mean that the application is in an unknown state.

That really depends on your use of the work 'unknown'.  Obviously if I've 
planned it, or if I catch it under debug and examine the stack and data 
structures, then I know the state, but that's not the point.  The point is that 
the generic code in our library doesn't know the state of the system and has no 
way of knowing what the best way to deal with the exception is.

> Indeed some applications may have come to rely on this behavior and it makes 
> it very difficult to port applications which do this without refactoring.

True.  Such applications are fundamentally badly designed/buggy, but it 
generally doesn't win you any friends to say so.
It's not as if

> As far as being "dangerously wrong" I believe it's equally wrong (or, 
> perhaps, worse) to have the application blow up when an exception is easily 
> recoverable and isn't fatal.

Yes ... but it's the application programmers responsibility to recover from a 
recoverable exception.  If they didn't put in any code to recover from an 
exception then the enclosing code is supposed assume that it was an 
unrecoverable error, because it can't know whether the exception is truly 
recoverable or not.  That's the whole nature of the exception handling paradigm.

> The philosophy is that, if it is possible to continue... it should continue.  
> It is up to the app developer to catch the exception and take appropriate 
> action.  If it's a fatal exception, it should be up to the developer of the 
> application to cause the app to terminate.

That's the opposite of conventional logic for exception handling (in which it's 
the developer's responsibility to do error recovery, not their responsibility 
to abort).
However, if it's up to the developer of the application to cause the app to 
terminate, then they should have caught the exception and terminated the app.  
In neither case should the exception have reached our code.

In truth the best behavior depends on the circumstances ... probably it's more 
often good to keep running in a gui app, as there is a human being there to 
notice the problem, and it's generally best to abort in any other 
circumstances, to minimise the damage that might be caused.

> We should NOT force the decision.

We can't help it ... we have to implement some behavior.

NEWS ... after saying all that, I actually searched for everything I could find 
about exception handling in MacOS-X (to see what they actually tell their 
developers to do), and there's new stuff there.  It seems that they've actually 
implemented the sort of user default based control I suggested in my previous 
email:

See 
http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/Exceptions/Tasks/ControllingAppResponse.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/2473-BBCHGJIJ

It also sounds like they've added a whole framework for exception handling.  
Duplicating that might take some time, but the basic handling mask in the 
default system should be quite easy to do.

Interestingly, it seems that for secondary threads they do normal exception 
handling and just terminate the thread.  The catching and logging stuff is 
normally done only in the main thread.



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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald


On 5 Feb 2009, at 06:15, Gregory John Casamento wrote:


David,

Simply because an exception is thrown and not caught does not  
necessarily mean that the application is in an unknown state.


That really depends on your use of the work 'unknown'.  Obviously if  
I've planned it, or if I catch it under debug and examine the stack  
and data structures, then I know the state, but that's not the point.   
The point is that the generic code in our library doesn't know the  
state of the system and has no way of knowing what the best way to  
deal with the exception is.


Indeed some applications may have come to rely on this behavior and  
it makes it very difficult to port applications which do this  
without refactoring.


True.  Such applications are fundamentally badly designed/buggy, but  
it generally doesn't win you any friends to say so.

It's not as if

As far as being "dangerously wrong" I believe it's equally wrong  
(or, perhaps, worse) to have the application blow up when an  
exception is easily recoverable and isn't fatal.


Yes ... but it's the application programmers responsibility to recover  
from a recoverable exception.  If they didn't put in any code to  
recover from an exception then the enclosing code is supposed assume  
that it was an unrecoverable error, because it can't know whether the  
exception is truly recoverable or not.  That's the whole nature of the  
exception handling paradigm.


The philosophy is that, if it is possible to continue... it should  
continue.  It is up to the app developer to catch the exception and  
take appropriate action.  If it's a fatal exception, it should be up  
to the developer of the application to cause the app to terminate.


That's the opposite of conventional logic for exception handling (in  
which it's the developer's responsibility to do error recovery, not  
their responsibility to abort).
However, if it's up to the developer of the application to cause the  
app to terminate, then they should have caught the exception and  
terminated the app.  In neither case should the exception have reached  
our code.


In truth the best behavior depends on the circumstances ... probably  
it's more often good to keep running in a gui app, as there is a human  
being there to notice the problem, and it's generally best to abort in  
any other circumstances, to minimise the damage that might be caused.



We should NOT force the decision.


We can't help it ... we have to implement some behavior.

NEWS ... after saying all that, I actually searched for everything I  
could find about exception handling in MacOS-X (to see what they  
actually tell their developers to do), and there's new stuff there.   
It seems that they've actually implemented the sort of user default  
based control I suggested in my previous email:


See http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/Exceptions/Tasks/ControllingAppResponse.html#/ 
/apple_ref/doc/uid/2473-BBCHGJIJ


It also sounds like they've added a whole framework for exception  
handling.  Duplicating that might take some time, but the basic  
handling mask in the default system should be quite easy to do.


Interestingly, it seems that for secondary threads they do normal  
exception handling and just terminate the thread.  The catching and  
logging stuff is normally done only in the main thread.



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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald


On 5 Feb 2009, at 05:50, David Ayers wrote:


http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2004-10/ 
msg00092.html


I still believe that handling generic handling of exceptions in the
runloop is a dangerously wrong and an implementation detail that we
shouldn't try to be compatible with.  But others may disagree.


Well I agree that it's obviously dangerously wrong ... but I'm not  
sure that means we shouldn't do it anyway.
Pragmatically, it seems like the vast majority of exceptions do not  
indicate anything very harmful, so continuing is not a problem for  
those cases, so compatibility might generally make sense.


What we could do is make the behavior selectable (with a user default  
for instance), and use it as a selling points that we can switch  
applications over to a 'secure' mode where they won't screw up like  
Apple ones might.


One more thing to note ... it's not as simple as just looking at the  
case of catching exceptions in the application's event loop.  GNUstep- 
base is already broken in this way in that it's Apple compatible in  
catching/logging exceptions inside timers and notification handlers  
(possibly other places too I guess).  This has actually bitten me  
once ... where an error in a timer meant that we got a huge logfile  
generated, filling the disc and bringing an entire server down because  
the process kept running and our monitoring software therefore didn't  
alert us of the error.  In this case, not being Apple compatible would  
have saved us half an hour of downtime, which is important when you  
are running 24x7 servers.





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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Gregory John Casamento
David,

Simply because an exception is thrown and not caught does not necessarily mean 
that the application is in an unknown state.

Indeed some applications may have come to rely on this behavior and it makes it 
very difficult to port applications which do this without refactoring.

As far as being "dangerously wrong" I believe it's equally wrong (or, perhaps, 
worse) to have the application blow up when an exception is easily recoverable 
and isn't fatal.

The philosophy is that, if it is possible to continue... it should continue.  
It is up to the app developer to catch the exception and take appropriate 
action.  If it's a fatal exception, it should be up to the developer of the 
application to cause the app to terminate.  We should NOT force the decision.   

Later, GC
Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc 
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer





From: David Ayers 
To: Gregory Casamento 
Cc: Adam Fedor ; Developer GNUstep 
Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 12:50:15 AM
Subject: Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 23:52 -0500 schrieb Gregory Casamento:
> The attached test program does not crash on Mac OS X when the button
> is pressed, but does crash on GNUstep.  The button calls the "action:"
> method in Controller which immediately throws an exception.
> 
> I believe this confirms that GNUstep's behavior is inconsistent with
> Cocoa.   I can test on OpenStep, but I suspect that the behavior is
> the same there as it is on Cocoa.

FWIW, IIRC this inconsistency was intentional an I believe for a very
good reason.  I thought we had documented it at the time but I can't dig
it up easily right now.

An uncaught exception indicates that the application is in an undefined
state.  For certain type of applications (like viewers) this can be
ignored.  For editor application this could mean that the document being
edited could be corrupted and saving it cause data corruption.

This thread is the only reference I found in which we suggested some
type of "Developer-Mode" which indicates that "I know what I'm doing,
let me debug, will you?!".

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2004-10/msg00092.html

I still believe that handling generic handling of exceptions in the
runloop is a dangerously wrong and an implementation detail that we
shouldn't try to be compatible with.  But others may disagree.

Cheers,
David




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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread David Ayers
Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 23:52 -0500 schrieb Gregory Casamento:
> The attached test program does not crash on Mac OS X when the button
> is pressed, but does crash on GNUstep.  The button calls the "action:"
> method in Controller which immediately throws an exception.
> 
> I believe this confirms that GNUstep's behavior is inconsistent with
> Cocoa.   I can test on OpenStep, but I suspect that the behavior is
> the same there as it is on Cocoa.

FWIW, IIRC this inconsistency was intentional an I believe for a very
good reason.  I thought we had documented it at the time but I can't dig
it up easily right now.

An uncaught exception indicates that the application is in an undefined
state.  For certain type of applications (like viewers) this can be
ignored.  For editor application this could mean that the document being
edited could be corrupted and saving it cause data corruption.

This thread is the only reference I found in which we suggested some
type of "Developer-Mode" which indicates that "I know what I'm doing,
let me debug, will you?!".

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2004-10/msg00092.html

I still believe that handling generic handling of exceptions in the
runloop is a dangerously wrong and an implementation detail that we
shouldn't try to be compatible with.  But others may disagree.

Cheers,
David




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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald


On 4 Feb 2009, at 20:23, Gregory Casamento wrote:

I definitely think we should implement something similar.   It would  
help a great deal with some porting efforts.


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:03 PM, David Chisnall   
wrote:

On 4 Feb 2009, at 18:53, Gregory Casamento wrote:

In some cases on Mac OS X I have observed that exceptions which are  
not fatal on Mac sometimes ARE fatal on GNUstep.   I believe we  
should change the logic which deals with exceptions to add a  
"continue" button and only show the panel when the application is  
running in debug mode.   This would allow the application to  
continue when recovery is possible.


Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

The OS X behaviour appears to be for each runloop iteration to be  
wrapped in a @try{} block with the exception being NSLog'd if it  
occurs during the runloop.  This is quite convenient for debugging,  
since you can just read the log and find out where the exception  
happened, without having to


Logging any exception in the application main runloop ought to be  
pretty easy to implement.
Would we wnat to look at other bits of code running event loops, and  
trap exceptions there too?



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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Adam Fedor


On Feb 4, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Gregory Casamento wrote:

I definitely think we should implement something similar.   It would  
help a great deal with some porting efforts.


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:03 PM, David Chisnall   
wrote:

On 4 Feb 2009, at 18:53, Gregory Casamento wrote:

In some cases on Mac OS X I have observed that exceptions which are  
not fatal on Mac sometimes ARE fatal on GNUstep.   I believe we  
should change the logic which deals with exceptions to add a  
"continue" button and only show the panel when the application is  
running in debug mode.   This would allow the application to  
continue when recovery is possible.


Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

The OS X behaviour appears to be for each runloop iteration to be  
wrapped in a @try{} block with the exception being NSLog'd if it  
occurs during the runloop.  This is quite convenient for debugging,  
since you can just read the log and find out where the exception  
happened, without having to


David


Yes, I've found it useful for debugging, particularly when you've just  
implemented a bunch of things.  Just logging the exception allows you  
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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Gregory Casamento
I definitely think we should implement something similar.   It would help a
great deal with some porting efforts.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:03 PM, David Chisnall  wrote:

> On 4 Feb 2009, at 18:53, Gregory Casamento wrote:
>
>  In some cases on Mac OS X I have observed that exceptions which are not
>> fatal on Mac sometimes ARE fatal on GNUstep.   I believe we should change
>> the logic which deals with exceptions to add a "continue" button and only
>> show the panel when the application is running in debug mode.   This would
>> allow the application to continue when recovery is possible.
>>
>> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>>
>
> The OS X behaviour appears to be for each runloop iteration to be wrapped
> in a @try{} block with the exception being NSLog'd if it occurs during the
> runloop.  This is quite convenient for debugging, since you can just read
> the log and find out where the exception happened, without having to
>
> David
>



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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread David Chisnall

On 4 Feb 2009, at 18:53, Gregory Casamento wrote:

In some cases on Mac OS X I have observed that exceptions which are  
not fatal on Mac sometimes ARE fatal on GNUstep.   I believe we  
should change the logic which deals with exceptions to add a  
"continue" button and only show the panel when the application is  
running in debug mode.   This would allow the application to  
continue when recovery is possible.


Does anyone have any thoughts on this?


The OS X behaviour appears to be for each runloop iteration to be  
wrapped in a @try{} block with the exception being NSLog'd if it  
occurs during the runloop.  This is quite convenient for debugging,  
since you can just read the log and find out where the exception  
happened, without having to


David


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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Gregory Casamento
This is what I was thinking... the reason I'm thinking about this is because
I am working on porting a few apps and exception which show up in the log on
Mac OS X cause GNUstep to die.

GC

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Matt Rice  wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald
>  wrote:
> >
> > On 4 Feb 2009, at 18:53, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> >
> >> In some cases on Mac OS X I have observed that exceptions which are not
> >> fatal on Mac sometimes ARE fatal on GNUstep.   I believe we should
> change
> >> the logic which deals with exceptions to add a "continue" button and
> only
> >> show the panel when the application is running in debug mode.   This
> would
> >> allow the application to continue when recovery is possible.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
> >
> > I think the panel is shown when there is an UNCAUGHT exception.
> > If the exception has not been caught, there is nowhere to return to and
> no
> > way to continue ... so adding a continue button and returning from the
> > uncaught exception handler would not allow the application to continue.
> >
> > If you want an exception to not be fatal, you have to write code to
> handle
> > it and continue.
> >
> > Sometimes you might think you can continue running, but know that the app
> > probably won't be doing what the user expects.  In this situation it
> makes
> > sense to display an alert panel explaining the nature of the problem, and
> > allow the user to choose between continuing and cleanly terminating.
>  This
> > however is a very different case from the panel shown when the uncaught
> > exception handler is called.
> >
> >
>
> there might be an handler in the NSApplication -run method which
> allows the runloop to continue iterating...
> i seem to recall an old version of openstep doing something to this
> effect with uncaught exceptions, didn't show a panel, or NSLog
> anything, or abort unless of course i was using NSAssert, and it was
> doing something with the c preprocessor to get rid of my NSAsserts,
> which seems possible :)
>



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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Matt Rice
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald
 wrote:
>
> On 4 Feb 2009, at 18:53, Gregory Casamento wrote:
>
>> In some cases on Mac OS X I have observed that exceptions which are not
>> fatal on Mac sometimes ARE fatal on GNUstep.   I believe we should change
>> the logic which deals with exceptions to add a "continue" button and only
>> show the panel when the application is running in debug mode.   This would
>> allow the application to continue when recovery is possible.
>>
>> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> I think the panel is shown when there is an UNCAUGHT exception.
> If the exception has not been caught, there is nowhere to return to and no
> way to continue ... so adding a continue button and returning from the
> uncaught exception handler would not allow the application to continue.
>
> If you want an exception to not be fatal, you have to write code to handle
> it and continue.
>
> Sometimes you might think you can continue running, but know that the app
> probably won't be doing what the user expects.  In this situation it makes
> sense to display an alert panel explaining the nature of the problem, and
> allow the user to choose between continuing and cleanly terminating.  This
> however is a very different case from the panel shown when the uncaught
> exception handler is called.
>
>

there might be an handler in the NSApplication -run method which
allows the runloop to continue iterating...
i seem to recall an old version of openstep doing something to this
effect with uncaught exceptions, didn't show a panel, or NSLog
anything, or abort unless of course i was using NSAssert, and it was
doing something with the c preprocessor to get rid of my NSAsserts,
which seems possible :)


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Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald


On 4 Feb 2009, at 18:53, Gregory Casamento wrote:

In some cases on Mac OS X I have observed that exceptions which are  
not fatal on Mac sometimes ARE fatal on GNUstep.   I believe we  
should change the logic which deals with exceptions to add a  
"continue" button and only show the panel when the application is  
running in debug mode.   This would allow the application to  
continue when recovery is possible.


Does anyone have any thoughts on this?


I think the panel is shown when there is an UNCAUGHT exception.
If the exception has not been caught, there is nowhere to return to  
and no way to continue ... so adding a continue button and returning  
from the uncaught exception handler would not allow the application to  
continue.


If you want an exception to not be fatal, you have to write code to  
handle it and continue.


Sometimes you might think you can continue running, but know that the  
app probably won't be doing what the user expects.  In this situation  
it makes sense to display an alert panel explaining the nature of the  
problem, and allow the user to choose between continuing and cleanly  
terminating.  This however is a very different case from the panel  
shown when the uncaught exception handler is called.



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Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-04 Thread Gregory Casamento
In some cases on Mac OS X I have observed that exceptions which are not
fatal on Mac sometimes ARE fatal on GNUstep.   I believe we should change
the logic which deals with exceptions to add a "continue" button and only
show the panel when the application is running in debug mode.   This would
allow the application to continue when recovery is possible.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Later, GC
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Re: Off to FOSDEM

2009-02-04 Thread Nicolas Roard
Hi,

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald
 wrote:
> I'll be leaving for FOSDEM tomorrow morning and won't be home again until
> Monday evening.
> My availability on email over that period will be very patchy.
> Hope to see a few of you there.

Well on my side, it looks I may only be able to come the saturday
intead of the whole weekend...
Would it be possible to swap the Pragmatic Smalltalk presentation from
sunday morning to saturday ? Or is there somebody willing to give the
talk ? (slides furnished !)

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Re: Off to FOSDEM

2009-02-04 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Have a safe trip.

 Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc 
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer





From: Richard Frith-Macdonald 
To: Developer GNUstep 
Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 12:23:30 PM
Subject: Off to FOSDEM

I'll be leaving for FOSDEM tomorrow morning and won't be home again until 
Monday evening.
My availability on email over that period will be very patchy.
Hope to see a few of you there.


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Off to FOSDEM

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
I'll be leaving for FOSDEM tomorrow morning and won't be home again  
until Monday evening.

My availability on email over that period will be very patchy.
Hope to see a few of you there.


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