http://advogato.org/person/Marcus/

Tue Jul 19 15:34:55 PDT 2005

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 06:25:08PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> 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?
 
 *shrug* :)

 ... don't shoot the messenger ...

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