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   Message 359 of 613   
   mark lewis to Bj”rn Felten   
   The new Radius, RFC   
   26 Nov 14 23:45:36   
   
   On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bj”rn Felten wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    ml> wait.. what?? that's today's date but that version is ""old""...    
    ml> oh, uhh... is that radius?? can't be "final-release" either, can    
    ml> it ;)   
      
    BF>    Yes indeed, it's Radius. But you don't think they were smart    
    BF> enough to have a single #define somewhere with the version type,    
    BF> number and date, do you? They didn't even keep all that info in    
    BF> the About dialogue (that is empty).    
      
   a define with that info?? WTF? damned amateurs ;)   
      
    BF>    Bugger me if I want to waste time trying to track down all    
    BF> occurrences of VersionNumber for the time being. But it's high on    
    BF> the todo list.    
      
   i hear that...   
      
    BF>    Now I'm on the C spree. Jeezz, how complicated they do things.    
    BF> I had Radius up and compiled in no time, but even when I install    
    BF> MinGW fresh and use the mingw Makefile the damn binkd doesn't    
    BF> compile.   
      
   C?? whatever for?? the taurus implementation is all PASCAL if i've been   
   reading it properly... geezus... no wonder the shits in the fan :/   
      
    BF>    I even had to manually create a number of sub-folders for gcc    
    BF> to even start trying to compile, and then it pukes on the very    
    BF> first compiler directive in the makefile, '-mno-cygwin' that    
    BF> obviously doesn't exist.   
      
   wait, what?? cygwin is not the same thing as mingw... sounds like you're in   
   the wrong environment...   
      
    BF>    Sigh! No wonder people suspect that C originally was a student   
    BF> prank from the Berkeley University. After all, they also gave us   
    BF> unix and LSD... 8-)    
      
   AHAHAHA... while that may be true, there has been some really good LSD out   
   there... quite the contrary with *nix shite :phbtbtbtbtbt: O:)   
      
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