The answer to your complain is very simple.

Swish-e 1.x was a mix of K&R-C and some ANSI-C
functions.

In Swish-e 2.x we tried to clean up the code to be
ANSI-C and Posix compliant. To improve this cleanup
process Warning levels have been switched on on the
GNU c-compiler.

If there are still some violations of the
standards these should be fixed.


rainer



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Perry [mailto:jules@limitless.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 6:08 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [SWISH-E] Re: Errors during HP-UX install of 2.1
> 
> 
> Bill
> 
> > Yes, you are absolutely correct -- at least for the code I 
> write I should
> > be more careful.  gcc -pedantic will probably make the code more
> > compatable.  But swish uses code from outside sources, and 
> we can't control
> > that.
> 
> Isn't portablility vital in a project like this?
> The fact that someone elses code that you use isn't
> well written doesn't mean that yours shouldn't be
> either, does it?
> 
> I'm not trying to start a war here (and I support and respect
> those who are working on swish-e), but over the years
> I've found that packages supplied as source that are
> easy to install and get going across a wide range
> of platforms get far wider use and acceptance than those
> that are trickier to bootstrap.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Jules.
> 
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