On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 01:03:27PM -0400, Randall S. Winchester wrote:
>
> Dispite the Friday-humor, your point is well taken. Many of us have our own,
> at times silly, Year-2000 policies. Not that y2k is not important, just the
> policies that get written by the confused. Oh, well..
>
> The upcoming FVWM-2 release should have a y2k seal. It should be tested
> against the various y2k relevant dates on a computer that is y2k compliant.
It doesn't even need to be tested. Try 'grep time' in your src directory
and see what fvwm does with times. (Hint: the vast majority of references
are in comments like 'check this 3 times', the rest are timestamps of X
events or timeval's for select().)
> Doing anything for FVWM V1.24r, however seems a little late in the game (in
> my opinion). I just looked at my own source trees, and the oldest version I
> have around is in fact, "FVWM V1.24r" with a date of "Jun 14 1995". It is
> what is runnning on our non-y2k machines, that we will be replacing. However
> the few places in the code where time is used are in "ctime" which is y2k
> compliant. Your group should be able to verify it themselves though.
[durin:~/fvwm-2.0.46/fvwm] 244 % grep ctime *.[ch]
[durin:~/fvwm-2.0.46/fvwm] 245 %
I see no 'ctime'. (or localtime or gmtime, for that matter.)
I deleted 1.24 long ago.
> Fvwm-workers, Can we have a README.Y2K or similar for the official release?
Use the one from
http://language.perl.com/news/y2k.html, though that
assumes that there -is- an interface for getting the date: fvwm has no
such interface.
It is more Y2k-compliant than a piece of blank paper: Perl (and C and
every other language) is as compliant as a pencil.
I think feeding Y2k compliancy statements to the clueless is a Bad Thing
in that encourages them in thinking that if they send out enough mail to
everyone their system is safe instead of actually thinking about the
problems.
I think avoiding Boeing airplanes for a few days would be a better thing
in that if this is how they ascertain compliance, the planes -will- be
falling out of the sky.
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Received on Sat Jul 25 1998 - 14:22:36 BST