| From: | Dr Greg Perry |
| Date: | 29 Mar 2001 at 01:49:07 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: St. Louis? |
On 29-Mar-01 06:27:18 Patryk £ogiewa wrote:
>Hello Tim
>On 28-Mar-01, you wrote:
>>> My point, which never seems to seep through people's skulls, is that
>>> it's not Opus that is incompatible with 3.9. It's 3.9 that disables
>>> _its own_ features when Opus is running. No one has ever told me why
>>> it needs to do this. As I said, talk to H&P about it.
>>
>> /You're/ the coder. A user can't talk to some unrelated party about why
>> /your/ software doesn't work. well they can, but that won't change
>> anything. They can only talk to the coder about /their/ software. That's
>> the thing that's going to have to get changed.
>> If the OS coders have decided that they needed to change something so that
>> DOpus still runs, then /you/ find out what, and re-code DOpus in such a
>> way that the OS doesn't need to run some compatibility kludge.
>I believe that you still can't get what Jon and Greg are repeating here (and
>there) again and again like some sort of parrots (no offence intended)!
>They say again and again: it is H&P that disables ITS OWN features for some
>mysterious reasons. They say again and again: they tried to discuss with
>H&P about this but got NO reasonable answer why H&P does that (disabling)
>once they spot dopus started. They say again and again: if you have enough
>power to squeeze out of H&P any reasonable technically backed up info
>beside "this is a compatibility kludge we needed to provide to allow dopus
>running", then just DO it since they tried and failed.
>Correct me GP guys if it is me who misunderstood something.
Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no mora.
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