Re: a minor update to makefile.mgw: Help Workshop

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On 2/24/07, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > windows, I found out that the web reference to Help Workshop mentioned
> > in the makefile isn't working any more (I guess that the domain has
> > changed).
>
> I'm afraid the same would apply to any change we make to this
> information, rather sooner than later.  Microsoft has made a sport out
> of completely rearranging their websites on a regular basis, meaning no
> deep link into it is likely to remain available for any useful amount of
> time.  The only stable location specifier would be "somewhere on the
> net, probably at Microsoft".

I don't visit Microsoft pages very often, but hardcoding the link
indeed doesn't seem too reliable.

But it makes no sense to keep broken/non-existing links in comments
either. I would mention that one should probably look for
"hcwsetup.exe" on Microsoft pages (in addition to what is already
written). It's not evident from makefile.mgw whether that is a
Microsoft product or some third-party tool. I wouldn't be surprised if
some tool on some X page would promote that name, but contain a virus
instead.

But it's only a minor (unimportant) change after all, no need to loose
time on it.

Mojca