Re: Computer Science

2024-10-16 Thread Mike Yearwood via Cygwin
The education of and practice of software is glaringly lax and we have the collective power to fix it. On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 10:42 p.m. Eliot Moss wrote: > On 10/16/2024 6:42 PM, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin wrote: > > I took over a 3 year long project. The previous programmer painted > himself > >

Re: Computer Science

2024-10-16 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 10/16/2024 6:42 PM, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin wrote: I took over a 3 year long project. The previous programmer painted himself into a corner and found me. I showed my work to the client. The other programmer was retiring. In 4 months, I rebuilt his 3 years work. During the next 8 months, I fin

Re: Computer Science

2024-10-16 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
On 16/10/2024 23:32, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: [snip] I couldn't have put it better Brian, especially regarding grasp of basic grammar and ability to provide semantic content. But you're just feeding the trolls. ;-) -- Sam Edge OpenPGP_0x8AC2CEBF54528E30.asc Description: OpenPGP publ

Re: Computer Science

2024-10-16 Thread Mike Yearwood via Cygwin
I took over a 3 year long project. The previous programmer painted himself into a corner and found me. I showed my work to the client. The other programmer was retiring. In 4 months, I rebuilt his 3 years work. During the next 8 months, I finished and expanded the project for a total of $80k. Clien

Re: Computer Science

2024-10-16 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2024-10-15 16:00, Jonathan Chapman-Moore via Cygwin wrote: I've always wondered why software has maintainers not set forth by their graduating universities. Ability to communicate clearly in English is a prerequsite. I suspect all software has maintainers who have been set forth in their di

Re: Warning message

2024-10-16 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2024-10-16 13:35, Vijay Maddali via Cygwin wrote: When rebaseall is used in my Cygwin /usr/bin, I get the following message: /usr/bin/glut32.dll: skipped because not rebaseable Looks like part of a *Windows* OpenGL Utility Toolkit package, not anything to do with Cygwin: delete it and anyt

Warning message

2024-10-16 Thread Maddali, Vijay LARSEN & TOUBRO LIMITED via Cygwin
When rebaseall is used in my Cygwin /usr/bin, I get the following message: /usr/bin/glut32.dll: skipped because not rebaseable -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: I created a Japanese translation of Cygwin Setup using res/ja/res.rc without using Weblate...

2024-10-16 Thread 武田洋幸 via Cygwin
I got it! I'll send it right away! On 2024/10/17 0:51, Jon Turney wrote: On 16/10/2024 00:29, 武田洋幸 via Cygwin wrote: What should I do? Please send a patch, ideally to the cygwin-apps list (subscription required to post) and formatted using 'git format-patch'. Thanks very much for working on

Re: I created a Japanese translation of Cygwin Setup using res/ja/res.rc without using Weblate...

2024-10-16 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 16/10/2024 00:29, 武田洋幸 via Cygwin wrote: What should I do? Please send a patch, ideally to the cygwin-apps list (subscription required to post) and formatted using 'git format-patch'. Thanks very much for working on this! [1] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/setup/tree/README#n95 -- P