OpenEuphoria

The real problem

• Posted by "Unkmar" <L3Euphoria at bellsouth.net> Oct 19, 2004
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Mirwald"
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: The Perfect Solution


> 
> posted by: Jason Mirwald <jmirwald at ameritech.net>

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> If  this community can manage to come to grips with the real problems
> that we face, and in some small way attempt to overcome them, I would
> be happy to contribute again.
> 

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> If all of you could simply step out of your little boxes for just a
> minute, and realize that everyone is basically writing the same code over
> and over and over again (that's why it clashes so much)
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Ain't that the truth.
"I'll do it my way, You do it yours." "I don't want it like that."

> you might see  that the problem isn't with the slashes, and it isn't with
> the file names,  and it's not even with the routines. The real problem is the
> lack of interest in trying to WORK TOGETHER to set up a new
> "standard set" of  include files for the community in general.
> 
> In all the time that will be wasted arguing about how to "fix" the
> problems with the paths, we could have written a set of includes to
> replace the ones that Rob distributes. Oh ... but I forgot ... we can't
> break all that existing code ...
> 
> Jason

But that requires people to actually work together.  And actually respond
to the problems encountered.  When I say respond, I mean speak up.
If x don't work with y.  Then let the authors of x and y know.  They can't
fix it if they don't know it is broken.

    unkmar