Kudos to Kevin Kenny and the community
Jeff Godfrey
I just wanted to give a public "pat on the back" to Kevin Kenny and the tcl
community at large. Recently, I was having a problem with timer resolution
under Windows running both 8.3 and 8.4. It was supposed to have been fixed
in 8.4, but I wasn't seeing the improvements while running Windows 98.
Kevin got involved and sent me a test (tcl) program to run on my system to
verify my findings. I sent the results back to him and he quickly created a
small C program he thought would verify real the problem. He posted the
program to c.l.t and asked if someone with a Win98 system could test it and
give him the results.
Rolf Ade jumped in, quickly tested the code, and returned the results to
Kevin. Very soon after, Kevin committed a tcl patch to SourceForge to
correct the real problem, and sent me an email informing me of the change.
He asked if I could try the latest changes on my system to verify the fix.
Unfortunately, I don't have compiler software on my Windows system, so I
informed Kevin of my dilemma. His response was "No problem, what do you
need? I can build it". A few hours later I had a new "tcl84.dll" in my
inbox ready to be tested.
Well, I got home tonight, tested out the changes, and guess what? No more
timer resolution problem! Sweeeeeet.
No matter what you hear, you *can't* buy this kind of service, and
dedication, and willingness to help - anywhere, for any price. This is what
tcl and the tcl community are all about and I'm proud to be a (very small)
part of it.
Thanks,
Jeff
Chris Nelson
> ...
> No matter what you hear, you *can't* buy this kind of service, and
> dedication, and willingness to help - anywhere, for any price. This is what
> tcl and the tcl community are all about and I'm proud to be a (very small)
> part of it.
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Chris
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Kevin Kenny
> I just wanted to give a public "pat on the back" to Kevin Kenny and the tcl
> community at large.
My goodness, this is awfully effusive thanks for a grand total of about twenty
lines of code, including the test programs! I doubt I spent as much as half an
hour, total, on the problem. This sort of thing is the least I can do to
support a community that's given me so much volunteer support over the 10+
years that I've been using Tcl. Ecclesiastes 9:10.
In short, "aww, 'twarn't nuttin... (*blush*)".
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Cameron Laird
>Jeff Godfrey wrote:
>> I just wanted to give a public "pat on the back" to Kevin Kenny and the tcl
>> community at large.
>
>My goodness, this is awfully effusive thanks for a grand total of about twenty
>lines of code, including the test programs! I doubt I spent as much as half an
>hour, total, on the problem. This sort of thing is the least I can do to
>support a community that's given me so much volunteer support over the 10+
>years that I've been using Tcl. Ecclesiastes 9:10.
>
>In short, "aww, 'twarn't nuttin... (*blush*)".
.
.
There are several systematic principles afoot here
(even excluding the obvious one, that Ecclesiastes al-
ready says much of what needs to be said). One is, I
think, that we're fond of Tcl precisely because it so
often gives large community returns for small personal
line counts. Kevin gave a gift, but he did not offer
himself as a martyr. Incidentally, Richard Suchenwirth
is on an inspiring streak of demonstrating precisely
this with his Wiki inventions <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/rs >.
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