On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, James Turner wrote:
>It still has a hackish look. A nice buffered system like Erwin
>proposed would be nice. How well does buffer 1.8 work, and is there a
>non-patch version available?
It has the beginnings of such code, but it's ugly (or at least I think so)
without c++. Try 'cut -c 2-' on the patch file. :)
>Perhaps it's time we as a community stopped making patches available?
>Instead, some kind of file describing what to do? Patches are a prime
>cause that we have so many boring semi-stock muds. Yes they're
>convenient, but on most muds, they're not usable as-is and require hand
>patching.
Is not patching by hand basically following directions? (Except in this
case, it doesn't matter what language you speak for the directions.)
>Fundamentally the same, just using an extra pointer instead of an int:
4 bytes vs 2 bytes, otherwise just about the same.
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http://patches.van.ml.org/ | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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