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 Message 359 
 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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