[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Re: Gl client probs]

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 02:48:31AM +0000, * wrote:
> Spent 3 days trying to convert all
> my code to vertex arrays, only to find out that they sap a tremendous amount
> of ram which I just couldn't afford, and I had to spend another day
> de-converting. 

Nightmare.  Use CVS, or at least RCS.  Then you can backtrack to previous
versions.

> 
> > PS2:My net code is grabbed from the gtk client and the common/ dir 
> > in the sources. Do you know if this is code portable accros
> > Win32, BeOS and Linux ?
> > 
> There is gtk for windows (and obviously, linux), and I believe BeOS; however,
> how portable code is across them I do not know.  I do know, however, that
> freeciv gtk for linux compiles in MSVC, it just won't link because they can't
> figure out how to link it with the gtk dll that came with gimp for windows
> (which installed gtk).

Personal experience suggests that that kind of 'programmer' will take at
least a month to figure out how to link libraries under windows.  All the
while pleading with you to let them solve the problem in Visual Basic or
Delphi or Cold Fusion.

*sigh*

Jules

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