So... J has a lot of bugs that need fixing. Meanwhile, my laptop died, and I've been working on getting some others set up so I can work.
Windows 8 is something of a mess, I've been working all day on getting a laptop with windows 8 up to the current specs. OpenBSD is something of a mess, I've been working all day on getting a browser running on it. It's kind of amazing that anything works, given how many problems there are. Let's take OpenBSD - I'm trying to build www/chromium there. But building pulseaudio I need to build python which needs tcl which needs some xml documentation which needs db/v4 which if I build it needs jdk which needs python, but there's another way of building it without jdk but that still fails because install wants to change directory to example.c which doesn't work, so everything fails, and now I have to unsnarl an install process which probably never worked because whoever is working on this stuff probably got their executables from someone else that doesn't use this rats nest of chained dependencies. With proprietary software, it's probably worse, but it's hidden so we can't see it. Except, the problems there are so enormous that after all day of applying patches to a factory clean version of windows 8, I'm just now getting to a point where it approximately works. What's amazing is that anyone can even talk about security, given this rats-nest of laziness, without breaking down laughing. Meh... Oh well, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
