Re: Zip V8 (Re-releasing Zip)


Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:41:36 GMT

>>>>> "John" == John Holder <jholder@nmsu.edu> writes:

> I agree. I would be happy for JZIP to join the bandwagon - I think
> there is still room for differing user interface modules, for the
> "look and feel" thing, but the rest of the core code should be the
> same. The only problem I forsee is that the two zip_random functions
> out there are not interchangeable.

So make this part of the "user-interface" part too. I think it would
be nice to have the core code without any nasty #ifdef's (but having a
configuration header file defining suitable datatypes for the various
sizes of ints and things required, preferably done using Autoconf,
with some machine specific ones for machines which can't run Autoconf
(I can do the Autoconf bit if nobody else is familiar with it)), and
to cleanly separate out the machine/user-interface stuff.

I think that's what Graham's intention is, and I see no problems in
moving random numbers out, if they're causing a problem where they
are.

-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~bruce/