From:	James W Sager Iii <sager+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject:	Re: [Cspace] Survey says! Problem 3.0...
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.msdos.djgpp: 3-Sep-100 Re: [Cspace] Survey
says! P.. by Damian Yerrick AT hotmail DOT c 
> >Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.msdos.djgpp: 2-Sep-100 Re: [Cspace] Survey
> >says! P.. by Damian Yerrick AT hotmail DOT c 
> >> >Bad command or file name
> >>  
> >> If you ever see BCOFN followed by an error in make, read the
> >> appropriate part of the makefile in Emacs or Notepad to see
> >> what you haven't yet downloaded, built, and installed.
> >
> >I feel like I'm being taught to fish instead of just given the fish...
>  
> Being taught to fish reduces mailing list traffic.
Its a good idea in theory, but I learn by example.
If you tell me whats wrong, I'll expand upon it, and use it later.
For example, you only told me how to compile the first two libraries,
but I managed to compile the .jpeg as well because of this problem... I
assumed to try and get everything to work.

Regardless.
I can't fix my problem, so I spent a better part of yesterday trying to
figure out Forge something website and crystalspace.
I dug through a couple thousand k of mailing list articles, and forum
things on my problem, with only 1 other person having the same problem,
but no replies.  All I'm doing now is waiting on the mailing list to
work if it is at all, I can't tell because I haven't gotten a message. 
I figure I'll give it a couple more days before I putz around some more
and officially give this 3d stuff up to go back to coding I know how to
do.  I know I sound like I'm whining, but don't be fooled, I'm just
discouraged.  I love the idea of open source and all(I spend time
pondering new economical theories of intellectuall property with open
source as a guideline), but I think linux people have the wrong idea
thinking,"If they're not smart enough to compile my code, they probably
aren't smart enough to use or make improvements to it."

Without a team of programmers, a corporation to back me with its
libraries of code, or people friendly open source, independent
developing will continue to be hell because of the fundamental overhead
involved with reinventing the wheel.  The resultant is corporations
releasing good graphical games with next to nothing gameplay wise.  I
wish I could just play games and content myself to that, but I swear
even the well talked about games end up just having incredible
imbalances or flaws that make them not worth playing... Maybe the hype
is generated because the company knows its releasing a bombshell. I
could give examples of this but I don't need to waste my breath, I'm
sure every game coder smart enough to be developing in DJGPP knows
exactly what I mean.

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