Wow! Didn't know you were here Lewis. Nice to hear from you!
And yes.. It would be great to have someone pick this up. It's a
helluva toolkit, and works great. (Just wish I could con you into
fixing the secdirectory thing tho! <grin>)
Hope a C++ programmer wants to work on it.
Lee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lsellers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:47 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: CF and Authentication
>
>
> At 10:57 AM 11/14/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >Some of the tools are not complete.. But it is a great start! The
> >author isn't too interested (it would seem) to fixup what's there.
> >But if you're a C programmer, you can fix the stuff yourself.
> >
> >Just my .02.. Still love the tools tho!
>
> Quite true.
>
> I'd agreed to a company's exclusivity clause earlier in the year so I
> basically had to dump the entire project. Not that I wasn't
> way beyond sick
> of looking at it anyway. /-)
>
> I really have no plans to ever work on it again, soooo... if
> a c programmer
> actually wants to finish the project I have no problems with
> anyone dumping
> the thing over at sourceforge.net and having a go at it. Open
> source and all.
>
> Wait... yes I do have problems with c programmers. They should be c++
> programmers. Reason? Some folks at NASA's primary contractor
> were having
> problems with the way it worked in a new deployment strategy
> a few weeks
> back. I tracked the issue down to the (now obvious) fact that
> most of the
> project was written in c and the global error reporting
> wasn't thread-safe.
> Easy to fix... if we weren't talking about something like
> 100,000 lines of
> code.
>
> As pro-space as I am I was almost tempted to go in and fix
> the bloody thing
> just for them. Or hire some freshman CS.
>
> If anyone seriously is interested in taking it over, just
> email me. I'll
> tell you everything you need to know to retrofit it into a
> set of nice
> thread-safe c++ COM's.
>
> --min
>
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