[CF-Devel] Protocol Questions (Server to Client)

[Mark Wedel]

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      On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Mark Wedel wrote:
     
     
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      Yes.  Windows has it's own DATADIR defined somewhere that does something
     
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      else.  I don't know what it does.  It's in some standard library.  It
     
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      didn't appear to be worth the time it would take to work around.
     
     
  Fair enough.


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     ifdef <few lines> else <few lines> endif
     
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     <few more lines of code that are common
     
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     ifdef <few lines> else <few lines> endif
     
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      etc, such that it became really hard to read through the function to see what 
     
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     it was doing, because not only did you have to try to parse the code, but you 
     
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     also had to parse the ifdefs.  So I tended to prefer longer ifdef/else/endif, 
     
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     even if they included some common code.
     
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      I don't think I did that to the server source.  It's probably some other
     
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      Win32 guy.  We all look alike.
     
     
  Actually, I was thinking that this predated the win32 changes - there was code 
like that in for some of the different config options.

  It doesn't really make too much difference what the code is ifdeffing - it was 
mostly just a readability issue.


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      I would guess MacOS would build from the Unix source, as there is no GUI
     
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      code in the common files, but that's just a guess. 
     
     
  Yeah - I notice there are a few 'getenv()' calls in the common/init.c and 
image.c files.  I'm not sure how they would get handled on macos.