Re: [ros-dev] found it! the "dce porting" header file

[Richard Campbell]

He is NOT contributing, he's cross posting on several lists.  Most of 
his posts are just random gibberish that in no way contribute to the 
development of ROS.

Rick Langschultz wrote:
> Why do you want to ban him? If it is because he is trying to  
> contribute in some form or fashion and is not flaming I think he  
> should be allowed to stay. Some (MOST) of my posts aren't considered  
> by reactos so when someone actually stumbles onto a resource they  
> find interesting, insightful people want to ban them, wow sounds like  
> the sharing of ideas isn't what you are all about. Sharing ideas and  
> resources is what opensource is about. I find it frustrating when  
> people write those kinds of posts asking someone to be banned. It is  
> opensource, he is trying to contribute something, jump off of your  
> high horse. Nobody is a programming god, we can all learn something.
> On Sep 17, 2005, at 3:39 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
> > Can we like...vote to ban this dude?  he's getting annoying.
> >
> > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > http://examples.oreilly.de/english_examples/dce/dce_nt/ dceport.h.aug95
> > >
> > > o joy o joy.
> > >
> > > also, i found _this_!!!
> > > http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
> > >
> > > which is an implementation of pthreads on win32.
> > >
> > > _also_ i found - was reminded - by judicious searching on google,  that
> > > of course entegrity.com have "PC-DCE" which is of course a  
> > > _commercial_
> > > product that has done exactly the work required: making dce (1.1?
> > > 1.2.2?) compile on Win32.
> > >
> > > including exceptions, dealing with mapping the names, blah blahhh.
> > >
> > > now.
> > >
> > > anyone got any brainy ideas on how to reverse dceport.h - in  
> > > particular
> > > the thingy.  wotsit.  TRY/FINALLY/CATCH stuff?
> > >
> > > what i'm going to try to do is take a shot at simply compiling
> > > dcethreads - on win32.
> > >
> > > if that _works_ (the tests pass) it'll be great - it will prove two
> > > things: 1) that pthreads-win32 works 2) that the dce exception  
> > > handling
> > > will fly, on win32, and _that_ means pretty much zero (urk! let's  
> > > hope!)
> > > work.
> > >
> > > for now.
> > >
> > > my main goal: "GetItWorking(tm)".
> > >
> > > i couldn't care less about binary compatibility for now: i want
> > > "services" - i want srvsvcd, i want winregd, i want lsarpcd, i want
> > > samrd - all compiled, all working, using TCP/IP.
> > >
> > > i can then work on rewriting freedce's ntlmsspauth.so to be a DLL
> > > (starting off as my favourite - a stub with username and password of
> > > "test").
> > >
> > > i can then work on writing an "ncalrpc" plugin transport (which is  
> > > very
> > > straightforward: a matter of filling in about 25 functions in a  vector
> > > table).
> > >
> > > and also on a ncacn_np plugin transport.
> > >
> > > "working" means that other people will then be able to focus on  issues
> > > like binary compatibility.
> > >
> > > guys (wine team) i have to say this.  you were utterly insane to  
> > > not use
> > > freedce as your starting point - and i am still bewildered by you not
> > > even looking at its source code (which is topologically identical in
> > > almost all areas, to what you've created) or the opengroup's  
> > > documentation.
> > >
> > > i say that with the greatest of respect for what you've achieved  
> > > without
> > > freedce.
> > >
> > > l.
> >
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