[wplug] C compiling question

[James O'Kane]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Rick Smith wrote:
> Maybe you haven't enough seen production code.  There's quite
> a wide variety of stuff out there, some quite hard to believe
> that it works for anyone (nothing of course from my previous
> or current employer :).

The other 'I can't believe it's production code' is kspread. Changing the 
Cell Format to a Date Format crashes it without fail. It is fixed in CVS, 
but they are calling this a stable release and something I consider very 
basic functionality for a spreadsheet program is broken.
It would be like a product, that called itself, say bitkeeper, but didn't 
keep your bits, it put them in /dev/null. :)
(That was a joke, bitkeeper is a fine product. Linus told me so.)

 
> > I want to make sure I have my arguement straight before I email the guy 
> > with a patch.
> 
> Sounds to me like your argument is straight.


It turns out that any email I try sending to the author gets bounced as 
spam. I think I'll get it to work for me, and put my patch somewhere. I 
checked Red Hat a little closer and mod_throttle only made an appearance 
in 7.2 and 7.3, it was removed in 8.0 because they've moved on to Apache 
2.0. This calls for a forknport! (fork the project and port the code.)

thanks to those who responded.
-james