Most larger packages have lots of separate, relatively independent, files that might need to be updated independently, and earlier than, a new release of the entire package.
e.g. compilers (like my Modula-2, E, etc) may have dozens or more support modules. Same would be true of C programs intended to be delivered in source form and then built. Even the simplest package will have separate documentation that usually lags behind the actual program and is often intended to be updated later.
Just wanted to send props to Rigo on his work on CodeBench. I've been using it as an IDE while working/learning with AmiVNC and it's been tremendously helpful as a newbie.
After reading this thread on AW.net, it is clear that something needs to be done to improve the quality of software releases. IMHO, "but it's free" is not a valid excuse for sloppy releases.
Myself and Daniel Hutchinson are working on two semi-independent projects, Jack and Assist.
You may well have come across these two packages already on OS4Depot.net already.
As always time is always at a premium for both of us, if you would like to contribute towards the dictionary files for both of these applications I am sure we would both appreciate your help.
So how can you help? Simple really.
Both A-Zs of each program are somewhat similar in design and the goal is the same.
Seems I may have to deal with unicode for something, and I can't find anything about unicode for Amiga. Is it transparent or do I need to do conversions? If I need conversions, what all do I need to do and where do I learn about it?
If you use Cubic IDE to automatically generate a GNU makefile for you, you may have noticed that the "clean" target won't work. It is because the original makemake tool distributed with Cubic adds an extra backslash to the object directory - as a result, the object files to be cleaned are not found. You have to edit the makefile manually, then.
to make it complete and since utilitiybase is still down I'd also like to ask these questions here.
Are there any of these tools available? CVS does not come with server support and regarding svn I was told not to use the server part as all (this matches with my own experiences when I did so)!
Is it possible to find the size (in bytes) of a segment in a seglist? The seglist would come from LoadSeg(), but might contain 68k & other non-OS4-native segments.
(I am a total novice regarding seglists, but I gather you can walk the list by treating the top of the segment as a pointer.)
Is there a function for obtaining a BPTR file handle from a newlib file descriptor similar to _get_osfhandle() function in Windows? I could really use such a function in a project that I'm working on. If there isn't I will probably have to give up on this project for now as I don't feel like rewriting all file i/o code I've written until now to use file descriptors at the moment.
