From: geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:54:02 -0700 (PDT) To: Joseph Morris cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Are you sure you _want_ the sources? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk > The sources are terribly messy, and very hard to understand. Understatement of the century. > They are all tied into the legendary VersionControlSystem. > Gene will be an old man by the time all these have been made into a > format useful to anyone else. If it was up to me, I'd thumb my nose at novell and dump the whole twisted little VCS of theirs on the net, pack up the whole directory tree (all 70MB+ of it), dump THAT on the net, and scream, HERE! YOU FIGURE THIS NASTY MESS OUT!.... I never thought I'd see a few thousand lines of makefiles processed *before* it actually got to the makefile for whatever package I was building at the time. Evil. Pure Evil. I do think it would be easier to extract the "normal" utilities from that mess, but it would still be a nightmare with anything that used RASM86 binaries. (hint, RASM86 is so old, it has not clue what a subdirectory is) > > An in-joke at Caldera is "When are you going to re-write it then?" > which is the usual comment made when someone begins editing a utility. > When someone asks. :) (Then again, I've been so buried at work, I've not touched the GEM code in a while...) > So there might be some anguish if the sources _were_ suddenly > released.. *some*?! Try "undeniable" or "unimaginable". ;) g.