Re: PATCH - Winuser.h

Danny Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.patches
Message-ID <000801c2718f$db304170$1698a7cb@DANNY>
----- Original Message -----
From: "KJK::Hyperion" <[email protected]>
To: <Steven_Ed4153-/[email protected]>
Cc: "Danny Smith" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 21:44
Subject: Re: [MinGW-patches] PATCH - Winuser.h


> At 17.29 11/10/2002, Steven Edwards wrote:
> >I will let Hyperion address these issues as I am just commiting the
> >patches to help him save time.
>
> (apropos: thanks, Steven)
>
> >>1) Anonymous structs will raise warnings with -pedantic in C
> >>2) My docs say ANSI and UNICODE versions. The TCHAR needs to be
expanded
> >>into two explicit structs with A and W suffix,
>
> sorry, I just lifted this from geOShell's sources. Making
MONITORINFOEX
> derive from MONITORINFO was necessary for a file to compile (and makes
for
> cleaner support for both in the same function), but you (I?) can
correct
> this to a more portable version, and fix geOShell instead - I have no
> problem with that

You can.

>
> >>3) Does  "KJK::Hyperion" have a proper name.  I don't like obvious
> >>pseudonyms and would like to change the earlier ChangeLog records as
well.
>
> I don't think I will second you with this. I've been successfully and
> proudly hiding my true name for years, and I want to continue doing
so,
> until legally bound to do otherwise (but my country's laws recognize
> nicknames as valid handles for people, as long as they can be tracked
> univocally to one subject - and I am the only "KJK::Hyperion" I know
of)
>

Fair enough.  However, I choose not to comit any more patches with
pseudonyms. If someone else wants to commit it, that's their choice.

Danny



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