Re: [mv] MV4 - State/Province field produces runtime error

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@my-books.com>]

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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Holm Tiffe wrote:

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> 
> Heinz Wittenbecher wrote:
> 
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> > 
> > Thanks Cameron.
> > 'simple' as installed, i.e. no changes made. (I keep an untouched 'simple'
> > as primary reference).
> 
> Heinz, forget about the demo as a reference, I have had some discussions via
> Mail with Mike H., he say's the demos are totally unsupported and he is'nt
> responsible to problems in the demos. He is only responsible to bugs found
> in Minivend itself. period.
> 
> There are so many mailings from beginners on this list about the difficult to
> install minivend an the poor documentation, so the people are using 'simple' as
> a reference (including me).
> 
> But this seems to be the wrong way to go.
> 
> We are a little Isp and we are selling those Linux Penguins and BSD Daemons
> to. The timeframe that I could use to track bugs in minivend and the demos
> are very small, and many bugs I've found are already found by others, but they
> got never fixed.
> 
> Minivend is great software, but the buggy demos are on of the greatest 
> culprits of minivend.
> 
> Holm
> -- 

You know, I just ask myself, when Mike Heins will be so .... off that he 
just throws out the whole simple demo to teach us a lesson or two. Then
what are you going to do ? 

This has been discussed over and over. People suggested a year ago on
the documentation list that

a. either _YOU_ help to come up with another demo catalog, supported
   and documented by _YOU_, to make the "buggy demos" (as you call them)
   better suited for newbies with no time frame to learn

     or

b. you write such a good reference and installation manual closely
   related to the MV source code that one _DOESN'T NEED_ a
   demo catalog in the first place.

     or

c. you use something else of which you believe it's better suited
   for your time frame and mind set of learning. 

MV is a one-man volunteer effort of program. If you want it to be
better, just help to make it that way. If you can't, don't complain.

Someone told me if you post something OT then it least it should
always be humerous. So, next time make us smile, ok, and don't cry
any longer.  8-)

Birgitt

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