jkh@ardent.UUCP (Jordan Hubbard) (06/29/88)
I just had the opportunity to unpack the Siemens RTL tiling window package and was, unfortunately, immediately bitten by the file naming conventions therein. Why is it that some people patently refuse to acknowledge that there are a good many system V sites out there that will have a hard time with file names > 14 characters? I had a similar problem with the RTL Menu package that forced me to rename many of the files and modify everyone's #include directives accordingly, which was a royal pain. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not ungrateful for the software or think that 14 character file names are a really neat idea that everyone should imitate. It's just that a lot of us have to live with them and would be a lot happer if people would take the trivial amount of time necessary to plan their source trees around this restriction. I'm posting this to xpert in hopes that some of you will take an extra look at your software before you release it. Disclaimer: I don't speak for Ardent or anyone else richer than I am. Jordan
ellis@AUDI.SIEMENS.COM (Ellis Cohen) (06/29/88)
> I just had the opportunity to unpack the Siemens RTL tiling window > package and was, unfortunately, immediately bitten by the file naming > conventions therein. Why is it that some people patently refuse to > acknowledge that there are a good many system V sites out there that > will have a hard time with file names > 14 characters? OK! Sorry for our provinciality. We'll fix it in the next release. -- Ellis