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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:37:27 +0300 (EEST)
From: Jussi Hamalainen <count AT theblah DOT org>
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Subject: Re: List archive?
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Andrew Dodd wrote:

> And, of course, the patch should be taken down, or at least marked as
> "severely broken, no one can compile this" on the PGCC page.

Obviously their code was not very thoroughly tested. I wonder wether
they tested it at all and if they did, how on Earth did they get the
thing to compile successfully? This seems like the Microsoft 
attitude: "It compiled? The first screen came up? Ship it!".

> That PGCC-1.1.2 patch probably should have been marked as an alpha or
> beta. :)

IMHO it shouldn't have found its way to the web page at all since it
obviously is very broken.

-=[ Count Zero / TBH - Jussi Hämäläinen - email count AT theblah DOT org ]=-


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