Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/29/16:55:10
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Johan Venter wrote:
> I'm not complaining to him, I'm merely appealing to him for help to fix his
> software.
>
> > be withdrawn from the net: that would be an impossible thing to do,
> > even if there was a good reason for it, which I don't think there is.
>
> I don't want to "withdraw" it from the Net, I never said that. I'd merely
> like to see it fixed (which I would do myself if there wasn't the underlying
> problem of me not having a full understanding of how it works).
The *real* question here (IMHO) is this: is RSXNTDJ a technically
sound way to allow people to develop Win32 programs?
If the answer to this is NO, and somebody can present the arguments to
back it up, then I agree that we should recommend that people look
elsewhere.
But if RSXNTDJ is a good solution, and all it needs is some work on
getting its installation easier for the uninitiated, then the Right
Thing to do is to take over its maintenance, not to boycot it. This
is how things are done in the Free Software world: if the previous
maintainer is unable or unwilling to support a good package, someone
else should stand in and take over.
> The thing is I don't understand the full inner workings of RSXNTDJ, although
> I can see the cosmetic faults. I cannot fully fix RSXNTDJ without fully
> understanfing what it is that I'm fixing. Plus the fixes that I could
> possibly add would be incomplete because of my lack of knowledge.
You can always ask questions here. If you post specific questions
about specific issues, and do enough footwork with debugghing tools
yourself, you will most probably get good answers.
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