[ros-dev] headers suggestion

[Alex Ionescu]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>Casper,
>
>--- Casper Hornstrup <chorns at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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>
>>Which rules are crazy? MSDN is usually right btw. You are
>>greatly exaggerating. You have to see it in the bigger
>>perspective. MSDN has tons of information and is made by
>>humans and since humans tend to make mistakes every now and then,
>>MSDN will have them too. Why don't you post in their newsgroups
>>about the mistakes you've found so they have a chance of fixing
>>them? I've found the MS newgroups to be a valuable way to get
>>your voice heard and to get help with problems.
>>    
>>
>
>Maybe I should have been more clear. Unless its on MSDN and does not
>require downloading a SDK package then they will accept it. Never mind
>the fact that the cabinet.dll information is published in a SDK on MSDN
>and the PSDK. They will not accept it as you have to click though a
>EULA to get to it. I know. I went through the trouble of asking the
>Wine authors to relicense the FCI/FDI headers only to have the Mingw
>people say "find it on MSDN" which I did, in a downloadable SDK. After
>I sent that they said "we can not accept this, it has a EULA"
>
>Take a look at the headers that are in Wine that are missing in our
>w32api. I doubt most of them are even in the latest w32api. The Wine
>people are happy to work with us to fix them. Should we rewrite them
>from scratch only to be told by the Mingw people sorry MSDN has a
>broken URL or what you submit does not match, even if I can prove it is
>wrong via a real world regression test.
>
>I don't want to fight about it. If you want to duplicate a lot of work
>go ahead and I will keep my mouth shut.
>
>Thanks
>Steven
>
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Let's all just wait for what I'm working on and then you can all flame 
me instead of arguing with each others :)

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu