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Re: qt patch for winnt.h


On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:07:37PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:43:16PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> > >> I do prefer feature-centric ifdefs, but I don't think that adding this
>> > >> particular definition of HANDLE to the windows headers makes sense.
>> > >
>> > >I think too, but you have another solution yet. :-)
>> >
>> > Not my yob.
>> >
>> Why not, you have rich experience in progamming and so on
>>
>To avoid misunderstandings, I only want to say, that I like your
>experience in finding solutions and that you have probably a better
>overview than I .-)

I also get to choose the programming projects that I work on, the last I
checked.

I have politely suggested a couple of alternatives.  Robert Collins has
given you another suggestion.

I don't claim to understand your problem fully but it doesn't seem
insurmountable to me.  You're right that I have a lot of experience in
programming and have probably solved problems like this many times.
Maybe as a hint, I should offer the fact that I've never had to resort
to modifying system headers to fix problems like this.

If I was doing this, I'd isolate all of the Windows calls in a separate
file and use native Windows headers.  Or, I'd create wrapper include
files.

That's about the limit of the amount of debugging of your problem that
I'm willing to give.

I was kind of hoping that I wouldn't have to raise the off-topic flag
but helping people port their projects is clearly not on-topic for this
mailing list.

And, please no arguments about this.  This is it.  Move discussions
off-list please or to cygwin@cygwin, please.

cgf


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