On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:08:08PM +0000, Roy Wood wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > <BIG SNIP> > >I DO believe though that potential developers should be able to > >distribute their builds of SMSQ/E for free if they choose so. (Emphasis > >on free) because if they do charge something for it, the rights should > >be given to the copyright holder/manager. > The reason that this was vetoed at the meeting was that the whole > purpose of the registrar was to make sure that versions of the binaries > would be compatible with most systems. For instance the inclusion of the > COPYBACK_CACHE into SMSQ/E for the Q40/Q60 made it unable to run ProWesS > with any degree of stability. Incidentally a version 2.98(patched) of > SMSQ/E is being distributed with current versions of the Q40/Q60.
this is a very nice example why you don't want to include such fixes into the official version without proper testing. The patch itself was a very simple bugfix, surely the way it was originally intended by TT but it has considerable effects: - MMU is enabled, apparently it was previously mostly disabled - full caching is configured. It is pretty obvious that this may break some software or even expose other bugs in SMSQ. >... has anyone had ProWesS running properly on this > version and, if they have, why will it not run on my Q40 without a > massive crash ? Wolfgang confirmed at Eindhoven that this will not work > with his Q60 so what is the situation here? It is most likely not an SMSQ issue at all, most crashes are caused by some application problem. You can turn off the caches and see if it works. Bye Richard
