Hello everybody!

I finally ported my personal changes to MBSE 1.0.6.8 and now to let things run for a bit to see if I managed to introduce any bugs in the process. It looks like my message feeds are still working, so at least I didn't break that part.

Ken


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So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD just
about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every compiler warning I came
across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

Ken Bowley wrote to All:

Hello everybody!

I finally ported my personal changes to MBSE 1.0.6.8 and now to let things

run for a bit to see if I managed to introduce any bugs in the process. It looks like my message feeds are still working, so at least I didn't break that part.

Ken

Ken...
kbowley@bbs.trod.org

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Hello Ken!

Monday September 26 2016 21:13, you wrote to you:

So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to
YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

Ken Bowley wrote to All:

Doesn't mbse support the local settings for lang, date/time etc ?

As it seems to here in the UK under Mageia v5 Linux and that includes Golded.

Vince

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Vince Coen wrote to Ken Bowley:

Hello Ken!

Monday September 26 2016 21:13, you wrote to you:

So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

Doesn't mbse support the local settings for lang, date/time etc ?

As it seems to here in the UK under Mageia v5 Linux and that includes Golded.

All the date formats in MBSE are hard coded, even in the language files.

I've contemplated looking at how to get it to support multiple formats, but since I'm a die-hard ISO format person, I just made the minimal code changes
to hard code it to the format I prefer to use.

* Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)

Ken...
kbowley@bbs.trod.org

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Ken Bowley wrote to Vince Coen:

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Just noticed that the tear line was limited to 41 characters so I bumped
that one to 51 just to be safe.

So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my

Ken...
kbowley@bbs.trod.org

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Hello Ken!

26 Sep 16 21:13, you wrote to you:

So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

I've been meaning to look into some of those as well, once I finish fixing Binkp NR mode. Would you mind sending me your changes to possibly integrate them with the main source tree?

Andrew

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Hello Andrew!

27 Sep 16 17:05, you wrote to me:

So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY to
YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

I've been meaning to look into some of those as well, once I finish
fixing Binkp NR mode. Would you mind sending me your changes to
possibly integrate them with the main source tree?

I attempted to send you an email the other day to the address listed in the AUTHORS file. I would be happy to send the changes I made to clean up the compiler warnings. I was doing the work on a Debian sid system, and the compiler has some nice warnings if things are indented different then what the code is really doing.

Ken

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Hello Ken!

27 Sep 16 21:21, you wrote to me:

I attempted to send you an email the other day to the address listed
in the AUTHORS file. I would be happy to send the changes I made to
clean up the compiler warnings. I was doing the work on a Debian sid system, and the compiler has some nice warnings if things are indented different then what the code is really doing.

I found your email in my spam folder and replied. You bring up a good point about the date formats, too. It should probably be configurable on a per user basis. All that would be required is add a date format specifier byte to the user record, and then update the code that displays dates to use the user's chosen format. Since this will mean a quite a bit of coding and debugging throughout the BBS programs, that project will probably not start until after 1.0.7 is released (which should be fairly soon if I can finish the NR mode fixes I'm working on.)

Andrew

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Hello Andrew!

28 Sep 16 13:02, you wrote to me:

I attempted to send you an email the other day to the address
listed in the AUTHORS file. I would be happy to send the changes
I made to clean up the compiler warnings. I was doing the work
on a Debian sid system, and the compiler has some nice warnings
if things are indented different then what the code is really
doing.

I found your email in my spam folder and replied. You bring up a good point about the date formats, too. It should probably be configurable
on a per user basis. All that would be required is add a date format specifier byte to the user record, and then update the code that
displays dates to use the user's chosen format. Since this will mean
a quite a bit of coding and debugging throughout the BBS programs,
that project will probably not start until after 1.0.7 is released
(which should be fairly soon if I can finish the NR mode fixes I'm
working on.)

There are user date formats, and then sysop orientated date formats, so it will be somewhat involved. Luckily I can look at my local diffs and see the various places that I've found so far. I think we could get away with a system default date option that would also be used for html/index creation and newuser signup, and then a user option that can control input/display once they are registered.

Ken

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Quoting Andrew Leary to Ken Bowley <=-

project will probably not start until after 1.0.7 is released (which should be fairly soon if I can finish the NR mode fixes I'm working

I'm working on a setup on my pi in the background. Glad to see people
are keeping mbse updated. ;)

Shawn

... Kettle, plug, fridge, milk, coffee. Yawn.

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Hello Ken!

Tuesday September 27 2016 10:27, you wrote to me:

Vince Coen wrote to Ken Bowley:

Hello Ken!

Monday September 26 2016 21:13, you wrote to you:

So far everything looks like it's working. The main part of my
personal changes are to change the date format from DD-MM-YYYY

to

YYYY-MM-DD just about everywhere. Of course I had to fix every
compiler warning I came across to satisfy my techie OCD issues.

Doesn't mbse support the local settings for lang, date/time etc ?

As it seems to here in the UK under Mageia v5 Linux and that
includes Golded.

All the date formats in MBSE are hard coded, even in the language
files.

I've contemplated looking at how to get it to support multiple
formats, but since I'm a die-hard ISO format person, I just made the
minimal code changes to hard code it to the format I prefer to use.

* Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)

Sound like we need to look into that as I would not think that it would be too difficult.


Hmm, now as a programmer I really should NOT says that !

Does depend little on the state of the data file/s used to hold that type of info.


Vince

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