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- From: Innovision Concepts Limited <keith@innov.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Problem with Mui 3.3
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 08:25:43 GMT
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- On or around Thu, 14 Mar 96, Eric Krieger is alledged to have muttered
- something along the lines of -
-
- EK> > EK> Obviously you have either old libraries somewhere on your disk or
- EK> > EK> memory,
- EK>
- EK> > Then why the hell does MUI not helpfully report that it is finding an
- EK> > old library?
- EK>
- EK> I don't know if it is the *task* of MUI to report this.... depends
- EK> on the "caller" of the library in question. It could be the *task*
- EK> of the application itself.
- EK>
- EK> But you're right; it should be more informative to the (end)user!
-
- Obviously it is the task of whatever is trying to open the library to be
- helpful when reporting that it is an old version! Mind you, I do agree
- that this could in some scase be the fault of the program, not MUI, in which
- case the programmer of the offending program deserves to be resoundly
- thrashed for very poor programming techniques!
-
- EK> > I guess what I am saying is that it seems that people assume that any
- EK> > problem is due to poor installation - this is not always the case, and
- EK> > a little bit of decent error reporting from MUI would certainly help.
- EK>
- EK> Certainly. But the original person (hankduckman) reported that he
- EK> had installed some MUI libraries in SYS:Libs, now that is not correct
- EK> (so the assumption of the "poor installation" is made with pretty
- EK> strong "evidence"; but please tell me if if I'm wrong).
-
- I saw no mention of his installing to SYS:Libs! (BTW, why should MUI
- fall over if this were to happen? After all, SYS:Libs is THE main
- library directory... just one of those strange questions I have about MUI.
- I like its seperate MUI:Libs directory, but do not see why it should
- fall over if you decide to use SYS:Libs instead.)
-
- EK> > BTW, what difference is there between 3.3 and 3.2+bugfix? Just want
- EK> > to know if I need to upgrade again.
- EK>
- EK> Some (good) bugfixes, so yes my advise would be to upgrade again.
-
- Well, I shall give it a go this week (assuming that there is not going to
- be a 3.3 bug-fix release next week again! ;-))
-
- BTW, anyone else notice how much credit Stefan has given to Olli for the
- latter's considerable improvements to the speed (?) of MUI? I.e. no
- credit so far... Hmmm.....
-
- TTFN,
- Keith.
-
- --
- You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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