Re: [SMAUG] Compiling troubles with the Ratings Snippet by Aurora

["Eos" <Smaug@AuricMud.com>]

Well, I think the fact the snippet's hosted on its original site with the 
warning:

* Denotes something made at the request of someone else that may be more like a 
crude outline than an actual functioning snippet.

Should've been enough to warn off most people from installing it without 
forethought.

Judging from the notes it was all written off the top of her head as an outline 
to someone else and never actually compiled/tested so who knows what it does.
It doesn't even have a clearly defined intended effect so the only way to get an 
idea of what it really does is to read through it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mysid" <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: "Conner Destron" <conner_destron@comcast.net>
Cc: <smaug@realms.game.org>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [SMAUG] Compiling troubles with the Ratings Snippet by Aurora



|However, the snippet you introduced into the system apparently already
| has all these warnings. There's not a lot you can do short of going through
| each warning, and trying to change the code to what you think is best,
|
| and  it is useless to be flooded with warnings you don't know how to fix:
| the messages will just get in the way of you fixing the errors that stop 
compile
|
|
| I think if I were in your situation, my choice would be to not use the
| snippet at
| all and write it from scratch, if bringing it in brings a plethora of
| warnings with it:
|
| that would tend to tell me that either it was probably not a very
| refined, well-tested
| snippet, or I made some mistake patching it in
|
| > who was willing to chat me through most of it via instant messenger and we
|
| -- 
| -Mysid
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