Re: CVS: blob/src/blob main.c,1.40,1.41

[Erik M. <J.A...@it...>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:21:56PM +0200, Abraham van der Merwe wrote:
> > >Update of /cvsroot/blob/blob/src/blob
> > >In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv18273
> > >
> > >Modified Files:
> > >	main.c
> > >Log Message:
> > >Changed the "Consider yourself LARTed" message to "Consider yourself BLOBed"
> > 
> > Hm.
> > 
> > I see the argument for changing this, however from a historical POV I 
> > would like to keep this string, if only for the LART. And then 
> > there's the fact that larting actually is a verb, as opposed to 
> > blobing (sic) ;-)
> 
> I actually had a feeling that you or Erik might object (: What about having
> a platform dependant message? The string for each platform could be defined
> in the architecture headers...

I agree with Jan-Derk, I'd like to have LARTed for the reasons he
mentioned but also because it's a nice pun for the Unix/sysadmin scene.
We can of course put it in the machine specific header file, but to be
honest I'm not sure if it's worth the issue. I can imagine that you
don't want your customers to be LARTed, but because blob is GPL'ed you
are completely free to ship blob with a nicer^Wmore appropriate welcome
text to your customers.


Erik

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