On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Early Ehlinger wrote:

> Thanks for merging this in! I'll be checking CVS to find it later.

It has been committed now. You'll see that I took the liberty of changing the
code slightly, as I think this way makes it slightly more readable and easier
to maintain.

> Thanks also for helping me implement it correctly, as opposed to hardcoding
> the functionality in place..., and for helping me look at the ./configure
> stuff a few days ago. I'm hoping to get back on that horse soon and have
> ./configure working with MinGW/MinSYS, time permitting of course. Don't be
> surprised to hear me asking some questions :)

I'll be around! I'll be a little less present starting in three weeks, but
I'll still be mailing.

> And finally, thanks for pointing out my newbie mistakes without being rude
> about it! I can't tell you how many times I've tried to get into the
> open-source fray and been treated like an idiot for not spending months on
> researching the proper way to create a patch for something that took an hour
> to write. I'm sure my lack of experience with your build process has slowed
> you down some (as evidenced below) and I really do appreciate your patience.

You're welcome. I'm happy I haven't scared you away with my remarks. We've all
been new once...

> Sorry about the // and inline variable declarations - I'm normally a C++ guy
> and those differences with ANSI C are the hardest C++ habits to break...
> Maybe I need to alter makefile.m32 to force gcc to catch these mistakes...

Don't worry, I've fixed them and we'll soon enough get them tested on numerous
platforms so any portability issues I missed will no doubt surface loudly
eventually!

I think you can use -std=c89 to catch those c99 things.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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