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


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


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