* Norman Vine -- Friday 22 March 2002 13:58:
> Melchior FRANZ writes:
> [...] because the plib developers don't seem to be keen to fix it. 
> 
> Hey that's completely unfair !

Yes, that's how I am.   :-)


> You have made exactly 2 posts to the PLib list, both yesterday
> I'll agree that you got 'one' rather curt reply from a 'self appointed' 
> 'overseer' of the project who FWIW IMHO generates a lot of noise 
> on the list but that is another story

I don't know the people there. But if I get only one reply and that
within about 20 hours, while there is some traffic going on on the
list, then I assume that this a representative opinion and the rest
of the subscribers stands behind the poster's opinion. 



> >(And they have a lot of such sloppy code.)
> Without examples that is IMHO completely out of line and as is the case
> with most Open Source projects 'worthy' patches are usually accepted  :-)

The wrong deletes are in my eyes sloppy. If a data type has no destructor,
then using the correct "delete []" is no computing overhead and should
get optimized away by the compiler. If it =has= a destructor, then using
only "delete" on a vector is plain wrong. (Stroustrup told me that. :-)



> Which for the record was the only 'actual' patch you have submitted 
> and was 'speedily' incorporated as it was as you say an actual bug,
> albeit a harmless one for the current FGFS code tree.

Yes, I have submitted just one patch. It contained fixes for four or five
wrong "deletes", one harmful bug and one wrong index. Just the harmful
bug got fixed. Why harmful? No, it didn't burn the processor or explode
the monitor, but it seems to be the cause for font textures amidst the
landscape when I used fgfs together with atlas. This is now gone. (But
I haven't verified if this bug wasn't fixed recently without me taking
notice.)

So, I might have been unfair, but the behaviour of the plib list was
less than acceptable for me. But this isn't an fgfs topic, anyway, so
I'll shut up now.

m.   ;-)


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