Hi Paul,
Paul, finding which header is missing from the places where you get
the errors would probably not be too hard.
I often do provide fixes, but I'm under the gun to get demos out the
door in a few days.
And Robert's under the gun (perhaps his own gun) to get a dev release
out the door in a few days too. So suggesting he set up something new at
this point in time was the same as him suggesting you fix the code
yourself :-)
Also, the general rule for most software development
projects is: "you break it, you fix it."
I understand where you're coming from, but the fact is that when there
are multiple code paths (and even more so when there are code paths
determined at configure-time with #defines) it becomes hard and
time-consuming to test each and every combination. I think it's
reasonable for Robert to rely on the community for some of this,
especially for configurations he doesn't use day to day.
Just look at how many times I've submitted Windows build fixes in the
past 3 years - I cut my teeth in OSG submissions on that stuff! For now,
I see GL3 as the same thing - OSG's primary developer doesn't use the
configuration (he could, I agree, but that's not the point), so it's up
to others to test that it builds and runs for now.
Although I also agree with your point that getting an automated build
going for each configuration would be easy too, but crunch time was
probably not the right time to suggest this...
In effect, both of you were saying "I can't fix this, I'm too busy with
other things, you should fix it". And one of you had actually broken it,
but the other had the errors right there in front of them. So you both
could have fixed it. That's all I wanted to emphasize.
Robert, keep in mind that words account for only a small percentage of
communication, which makes it easy to read attitude into someone's
text-only post, where none actually exists.
That's so true. Most flame wars start because one poster reads more into
the words than what was actually there, and then things escalate.
J-S
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