Re: Reporter flooded with colourtrans message

In article <acc2e6e14d.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 31 Dec 2005 Martin <News@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > These experiments may not be conclusive, but I think these observed
> > differences between the two 'latest' versions of RISC OS illustrate
> > how much they have diverged under the covers. For example, I suspect
> > ROL have spent some considerable time in reducing the storage
> > thrashing which used to occur (eg each display of a menu or submenu)
> > and still does with RO5. It also illustrates how applications can
> > behave differently under the two branches, causing a continuing
> > nightmare for application developers.

> Well this is all stuff going on in the OS rather than a user
> application. You are only seeing the difference because you are hooking
> in to command issuing. I'm not really concerned whether the OS does
> something completely different internally as long as it works and
> behaves the same way as far as normal applications are concerned.

Agreed ... but here we have an apparent memory leak 'provoked' by
MiniDisc when running on RO5.10 and not on RO4.39. I have no idea
whether the problem is with MiniDisc, or the OS, but I suspect it is
going to be difficult for the MiniDisc developer to support.

> > My fervent wish for 2006 is that we see some convergence bewteen the
> > two branches of RISC OS. The RISC OS community (suppliers, software
> > developers and users) CANNOT afford to continue to support two
> > branches of the OS.

> The main reason for a merger is to stop the ridiculous duplication of
> OS development effort (not that theres much evidence of that at ROL
> since May 2004) in such a small market, and to ensure that the work put
> in to enhanced APIs in Select isn't hasn't been a complete waste of
> time because they aren't universally available.

Agreed again ... duplication is a waste of time and money, as is adding
facilities that are rarely used.

Martin

> ---druck

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