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[Robert Love]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:19 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> 	At work ... after talking to some HAL knowledgeable
> 	guys I found out I need to change my SUSE libgphoto2
> 	package to use HAL better.
> 
> 	Then I found out that HAL has this evil libgphoto2
> 	usermap to FDI converter. WTF? Those guys never even
> 	said a single word to the gphoto developers that they
> 	need the map in this format, they just went and wrote
> 	a script? Another example of NIH syndrome... :/
> 
> 	So I now just added a FDI map output to
> 	print-usb-usermap, the program we have for dumping such
> 	maps and have it work the canonical and correct way.
> 
> 	Things i hated today: hal.

How is it NIH if the code was not implemented yet?

	Robert Love


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