Dear Wolfgang, I have just found this email.
Your diligence is to be commended. However you can never prove that it makes no difference without checking each change and seeing whether it makes any material difference to the output. Even then you have to be infallable in your checking. I know George compared the rel files by overlaying one with the other to see what the changes are. He as also altered the source so that Gwass and QMac produce the Qmac result where Qmac changes the source to what it thinks you require instead of what the source techniquely requires. We know that Gwass reduces all jumps etc to their shortest form, but this has been tested so much George knows that it works properly. George and I have been running the Gwass versions for at least 2 years now. We have not had any problems. In fact George and I run nothing else. However the normal procedure is to issue the changes as a beta version. The more testers the more the more certain of finding a bug if one exists. I hope you find the above belated comments useful. John On Sunday 13 August 2006 08:05, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > George Gwilt wrote : > > I wonder how many QL machines can run SMSQE but do not have a 68020+? > > I can only think of gold card. All the other types have one of 68020, > > 68040 and 68060. So how many people just have Gold cards and want to > > compile SMSQE? Two, or 200 or 5,000? > > Let's not forget all the Ataris, too. > > Just a few more comments on GWASS and the sources: > > > George has already done an enormous amount of work on the sources to > find the incompatibilities and address them. > Notably, he has re-written all of the macros so that they can be used > with GWASS, and belive me, this was much more work than just using some > kind of script to change some parameters. > > The scheme that is intended to be set up here is to have his macros in a > separate directory and the user can then copy those that he wants into > the macro directory within the sources. Of necessity, the macros need to > have the same name. > > There are other changes that need to be done. > > I'm in the, admittedly wery slow, process of trying the integrate these > changes into the sources. > Perhaps understandably, I don't want to go from a state where I have > sources that work to a state where I have sources that no longer work, > because of a change that was made in one of over a hundered source files > and will be very difficult to trace... > > So it is being done but very slowly (and the reply to the question put > here of "when it will be done" is when I have had enough time to do all > of this and am satisfied that some bug introduced in the process won't > bite me in a few months...). > > Wolfgang > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
