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Re: w32api usr/include/sqlext.h bad macros


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:19:26PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:40:59PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:41:02PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> >>>>The following was rejected on cygwin-patches.  I'm intentionally
> >>>>posting to the wrong list now because I shouldn't have to subscribe to
> >>>>a mailing list just to report a bug!
> >>>
> >>>Since cygwin-patches isn't a "bug reporting" mailing list and since the
> >>>below isn't "a patch",
> >>
> >>It's a line by line description of what needs to be changed to fix a
> >>bug.  That it's not a "Larry Wall format" patch doesn't make it any
> >>less of a patch.
> >>
> >>The mailing list description page says not to mail such things to this
> >>list.
> >>
> >>>I'd say that that the system was working as designed.
> >>
> >>Hardly.
> >
> >I'd like to step in here to point out that the system isn't without
> >flaw; I had a similar experience to Eric's.  Noted a minor bug in a
> >header, created a (real) patch file, and had to subscribe to send it to
> >cygwin-patches.  Being a clueless newbie, I of course didn't include a
> >changelog entry.  So, if all were working as designed, I would have
> >been yelled at (err, gently corrected), and made to resubmit.  But ....
> >
> >drumroll...
> >
> >instead, Corinna just applied it.  Someone must have been asleep at the
> >wheel is all I can say.  Just plain broken.
>
> I'll have to speak to Corinna.  She's obviously slipping.  Now that I
> don't manage her anymore she doesn't get her weekly dose of meanness
> from me.
>
> cgf

Wake up people!  It's the 21st century!  Can't we make programs that are
automatically mean, without us having to remember about it?  Or is this
simply a bug? ;-)
	Igor
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