At 10:58 AM 4/19/2001 -0400, Daniel Hegyi wrote:
>Paul, you mentioned in an email that there are only 2 ways that this JDEBug
>initialization problem will be fixed:
>
>1. So. who has the problem AND is a lisp guru AND is a JDE guru (or at least
>has enough time and energy to get acquainted with your source) fixes it.
>
Apparently nobody. I also do not have an unlimited amount of time, either,
and since this is not MY problem I don't feel like investing a lot of MY
time in fixing it.
I find, BTW, claims of the ilk "I don't have enough time for x" very
irritating. It implies that you are busier and your time is more important
than the next person's. Life is about making time for things that you
regard as important. If you don't regard something as important enough to
invest your own time in it, fine. Just say so. Everyone, including me, can
accept that. But don't insult my intelligence by claiming that you'd do it
if only you had the time.
>2. You stumble on the bug.
>
>
>I thought you wrote in an earlier email that you would soon rewrite the
>whole thing, since it was written in a sloppy manner by a SUN intern. I was
>excited when you wrote this, because I saw light at the end of the tunnel.
>
I, in fact, have already rewritten large parts of the Java code and the bug
persists--on SOME machines but not on MINE. I long ago rewrote the code
where the problem appears to occur, namely setting up the SIO socket. I
have discussed the problem over and over again in this list and pointed
people to the place in the source where I think the hangup occurs. It
should be trivial for any modestly competent Java programmer to go and look
at this code, instrument it still further with println statements, and try
to narrow more precisely where the hangup occurs. I would be glad to help
anyone who tries to work this problem with suggestions, e.g., does the
socket actually get created, instrument the Lisp code that processes
messages back from JDEbug so that you can tell whether the problem is in
processing the launch messages, etc.
- Paul
