martin@CITI.UMICH.EDU (Martin R. Friedmann) (02/13/89)
I have noticed some fixes which claim to bring software up to X.V11R3 which fail to remove #includes of Misc.h . I know that this is quite trivial (as is Misc.h), but still, it has been removed, and I assume that it should no longer be in peoples /usr/include trees. As I said, this is trivial. but it still exists. Marty.
carlson@aftac.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson) (02/13/89)
In article <8902130418.AA03030@expo.lcs.mit.edu> martin@CITI.UMICH.EDU (Martin R. Friedmann) writes: > >I have noticed some fixes which claim to bring software up to X.V11R3 >which fail to remove #includes of Misc.h . I know that this is quite >trivial (as is Misc.h), but still, it has been removed, and I assume that >it should no longer be in peoples /usr/include trees. Since so many widgets sets (MenuBox, Xhp, Xsw, tblwidget) use this, should it be maintained (as XmuMisc.h?)? How many copies of Misc.h should there be? John Carlson
martin@CITI.UMICH.EDU (02/14/89)
>Since so many widgets sets (MenuBox, Xhp, Xsw, tblwidget) >use this, should it be maintained (as XmuMisc.h?)? How many >copies of Misc.h should there be? >John Carlson I don't particularly care. I just feel pissed everytime someone's #definition or use of Max or Min (we all know these by heart) gets in the way of real work. How about the structure elements in the phigs header file named "max" and "min". Face it... this is C! There is no single Max or MIN. No single NULL. We should have *lots* of these Miscellaneous header files around to spice up our lives! I don't understand what good it is moving the file to XmuMisc.h, you then have to go through and edit every #include <X11/Misc.h>. No. Why don't we leave it where it was, or HEY! we could #define Max and Min in every single unfortunate (to have used Max or Min) application's main header file. Just as long as it doesn't wind up on ld's sh*t list when not #defined I don't care. My gripes are not directed at the X community, but rather at C's lack of a well known "misc.h" or NULL or Max or max or MAX or min even. I guess that it's all my fault for removing (rming) it from our X11 include directory as I installed R3. Marty.