>>>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:47:27 +0100, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Dave> I knew that stepping through the table_data lists would fail, Dave> but that never felt to be pushed as a user-level helper. I can't think of any case, except in the emulator that we were providing as well, where you'd want to create a dataset table where all the data was being managed but you'd never look at it elsewhere. Walking through the data was the only way to view the results within the code (and, again, I agree I should have provided wrappers originally). One of the things that annoys me the most about other projects is when structures change for seemingly little reason. It makes tracking it really difficult and spends a lot of other people's time. It may have saved a developer a few minutes of future coding, when when 10000 people were following it the few minutes of extra work to convert their code results in a lack of productivity across the globe. Good examples of this are the continuing changes in the linux kernel, although potentially needed, affect a bunch of external modules. I continually run into needed-for-me add-on code for linux kernels that worked between 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 or so, for example. Internally the kernel may have been consistently changed but it affected a lot more code than that. A better example, actually, is the structure changes between openssl 0.9.6 and 0.9.7. Look into our configure script and snmplib/scapi.c for the absolute portability hell that I had to go through to support both versions because they used identical structure names in both versions with very different internals. whee..... Hmm... Didn't start out to rant, but apparently I did... I guess I'm tired of twiddling with broken patches and software. Dave> But we also need to catch the people that are *already* using it. Dave> Hence the idea of a warning. Agreed, a warning is fine. -- Wes Hardaker Sparta, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
