Re: win c_print.c hosed on lastest snapshot 04/13/01 * long longproblem

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert)

robert> Just a thought.  Why do u release version's of openssl that u
robert> suspect will not compile for win32 nt4.  why not try to
robert> compile at lease once before you release.  some of us are
robert> trying to get from point a to point b without visitaions from
robert> the Valkyrie.  if u don't want to support win32 nt why not
robert> just say so.  give it up to some other mini monopoly and lets
robert> them compete and see who gets to the Valhalla first.

You seem to be confused.  In the text, you're talking about a release
(without saying which one) while in the subject line, you're talking
about a specific snapshot.

The releases we do are usually tested during a release cycle of at
least two weeks, usually by volunteers out there.  The platforms
tested on are as many different Unixen as we can get hold on (or
managed by people we can get hold on), OpenVMS (often, but not always,
tested by me) and Windows in many configurations (I've done some tests
on Win2000 using both CygWin and VC++ for the last release (0.9.6a)).

Snapshots are, however, a completely different thing.  They are
exactly what the name says, a snapshot of whatever development has
been done during the day.  There is *NO* guarantee that tests have
been done on your favorite platform, only on the platforms that the
one working on OpenSSL happened to work on.  For me, that's most often
Linux or OpenVMS.

BTW, since OpenSSL is a volunteer project, the best you can do is
simply help us by testing and telling us in great detail what goes
wrong, and in the best case, you might even join in a patch that fixes
the problem.  I don't know about you, but to me that feels like energy
spent much better than on whining :-).

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