Re: [netatalk-admins] a cold wind bloweth

[John Barry]

Hi,

> > From:    John Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> > I compile stuff for a living, everything is difficult to build the first time.
> > Hands up those that built perl without trouble the first time? 
> 
> I'll note this: the last "release" of netatalk I made was 1.4b2 -- a
> beta.  It compiled pretty much cleanly and "out of the box" on all of
> the platforms it was listed to work on.  I really don't think that's
> asking for more than a little discipline on the part of the
> developers.

Yup, he's right, compiled cleanly, installed without a hitch. Doesn't work
with appleshareIP.

Adrian's patches do, they required a little tweaking, both before and after
the fact, but I ran a lab of twenty macs from an aging sparc 2, and even got
them to spool to a lineprinter in the lab.

> And, ah, "show of hands"?  Good thing the whole world isn't run by
> committee.

It is, we just didn't invite you :P

later
jb