[Coldstuff] coldcore

[Brad Roberts]

So grab the pre-release which I sent mail back a week or two ago and look.
No one, as far as I know has purposely broken the Borland compiler
support, but by the same token, no one has actively maintained it either.
The windows support, such as it is, is merely me (for this release, Bruce
or Brandon for previous releases) merging patches from others.  If there's
more work that needs to be done... do it, send it to me, I'll integrate
and make it a part of the next release.  I don't write windows apps, have
no intention of doing so, and so can merely facilitate getting the code
out to those that want to use it.

http://www.puremagic.com/~braddr/Genesis-1.1.11-pre2.tar.gz or .bz2

The only change from -pre1 is a s/MSCV/MSVC/ in one place.

If you intend on testing and updating the borland support (or any other
aspect of the win32 support) in the next short window of time, let me
know, I'll hold this release.  If you don't, then I'll go ahead and see
about releasing this version and we can address the potential for a 1.1.12
at some future date.

Later,
Brad

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jon A. Lambert wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:15:08 -0400
> From: Jon A. Lambert <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com>
> Reply-To: coldstuff@cold.org
> To: coldstuff@cold.org
> Subject: RE: [Coldstuff] coldcore
>
> Brad Roberts wrote:
> >
> > Other than filing a bug in the running main coldcore at ice.cold.org 1138,
> > this is probably the second best place.  That said, I won't do anything
> > with the report.  The only thing I worry about is the driver aka genesis.
> >
>
> Speaking of the driver I noticed some problems with the Genesis
> 1.1.10 binary running on both Win9x and NT.  Both log ~file
> errors when calling backup().  It appears to make the binary.bak
> directory fine and does opens the .index output file, but either
> fails to open and or read the source .index.  I'm referring to
> the binary release at www.cold.org.
>
> Also that version writes textdumps with line feeds in them!
> All the text files generated and read into Cold should really
> use BINARY mode, even under Windows IMO.  It's not a real big
> deal as it's easy enough to run them through a script to fix
> when you're porting stuff up to another server.
>
> Both of the above was working correctly in the port I did
> back in 97(?) 1.0p26.  I haven't seen 1.1.11 pre-release yet.
> I hope you're not removing the Borland directives as some of
> us winlubbers do not lub VC++ at all. :-P
>
> Oh and it does work well under the Cygwin emulator but only
> under NT.  Execute doesn't work as it calls the NT shell, but
> I did have success calling a NT batch file which set up c-shell
> under cygwin and then forwarded it all the parameters.  GDBM is
> broken under the Cygwin emulator for Win/9x systems.  I sent
> the maintainer a patch but it's been quite awhile.
>
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