On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Tom Dailey wrote:
>I know you do a ton of coding and answer about 80% of all questions posed
>on this mailing list...
I've found lately that there is becoming less and less worthy of responding
to. Nothing in-depth, usually FAQs, and quite repetitive.
So I just dump out 130kB patches and hope someone of knowledge does a peer
review on it to make sure I'm not missing anything. I'm not one of the best
coders on this list but I pick up things quickly.
>but What mud do you code for?
CircleMUD. :)
>I havn't seen the listing anywhere.
Short version: I started a CircleMUD and learned C through it. Then I was
hit by a memory overflow caused by a stock CircleMUD bug where it would
read a 'xname' line into a too-small buffer.
(http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD/obsolete/stock11.patch) It took me 2
months to figure it out because I had never encountered one at the time and
I didn't feel like working on my own MUD afterward because of
disillusionment. So I started on CircleMUD and soon had amassed enough
patches, fixes, etc. that Jeremy offered me a job.
And that's why you get such huge patches of bugfixes to digest. :)
On a more CircleMUD note, expect a new CVS snapshot sometime late Tuesday
when I should finally be able to merge all of the code changes I have into
the mainline tree. No real release, sorry, that's not my department.
--
George Greer, greerga@circlemud.org | Genius may have its limitations, but
http://mouse.van.ml.org/ (mostly) | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD/ | -- Elbert Hubbard
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