[fonc] the miracles [was: My visit to VPRI]

2008-06-09 Thread Michael FIG
Hi, Thiago Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anything that could be shared/discussed about the miracles at this point? I really would like to know what is known about them (and what is not), possible directions for experimentation, etc. Any thoughts? Actually, I don't know much about

[fonc] public Mailman archives [was: wiki and communication]

2008-06-09 Thread Michael FIG
Karl Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can the mailing list archive be made public so we can link to posts there? I think the main reason this has not yet been done is to avoid spam harvesters. I didn't see any obvious way to configure Mailman to hide addresses (I looked in the Mailman

Re: [fonc] PATCH: id/libid.c: _sendv() handle _sendv() as arguments.

2008-06-09 Thread Michael FIG
Hi, Kurt Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This little bit of GNU CPP trickery allows the _sendv() macro in id/libid.c to be used as arguments to itself. Interesting! I'll keep this around in case it comes in handy. -- Michael FIG [EMAIL PROTECTED] //\ http://michael.fig.org/\//

Re: [fonc] can't build on osx

2008-06-09 Thread Michael FIG
Hi, Dethe Elza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. A pointer on the web with current working instructions labelled Start Here Ultimately, that's what the wiki should be. I think the problem here is that nobody who both knows Id well enough and also has compiled it on OSX has also written up their

RE: [fonc] the miracles [was: My visit to VPRI]

2008-06-09 Thread Anatoly Levenchuk
Is there anything that could be shared/discussed about the miracles at this point? I really would like to know what is known about them (and what is not), possible directions for experimentation, etc. Any thoughts? Is there list of known miracles (not principles numbered in the illustration

[fonc] Software Portablilty

2008-06-09 Thread Karl Robillard
On Sunday 08 June 2008 03:30:29 am Ivan Krstić wrote: On Jun 8, 2008, at 12:47 AM, Karl Robillard wrote: I will write portable code, which does not assume any specific CPU or OS, so as to respect the users right to run my software on many different systems. CPU, maybe, but