Remeber this little rant?

On Fri, 19 May 2000, Allan Rae wrote:
> Now for the rant:
> 
> Next time you want to mess with the code for a dialog change the 
> forms/xxxxx.fd file not the xxxx.C or xxxx.h files.  I've just spent a day 
> fixing the frigging stuff so I could regenerate the files I had modified. 
> Since I have now completely removed form_print and form_copyright from the 
> old code.
> 
> Plenty of little changes that would have been easy to implement correctly in 
> the first place instead of having to reverse engineer a correct solution.  
> Devvies, do not ever, _ever_, EVER accept another patch changing gui code 
> unless the corresponding *.fd file and possibly fdfix.sh is also updated so 
> we can continue using "make updatesrc" in the forms/ subdirectory.
> 
> Are your ears red?
> 
> end of rant.

Seems somebody did it again.  Only a one liner and I nearly missed it.
I'll have an updated bullet_forms.C.patch with my next GUII patch.  In the
meantime anyone running `make updatesrc` in forms/ should be aware of
this.

Allan. (ARRae)

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