xfce4-weather-plugin stopped working with "Invalid License Key"

Michael Orlitzky michael at orlitzky.com
Sun Nov 6 20:11:08 CET 2011


On 11/06/2011 08:35 AM, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 11:32 +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote: 
>> Direct use of ligweather is probably not feasible since it uses
>> gconf, but the parsing code could probably be extracted.
>> So there are enough free sources available, what matters is
>> somebody stepping up and doing the work, otherwise this
>> discussion is pretty much pointless.
> 
> Directly the point. If I were any kind of a real programmer, vs a system
> admin, I'd do it in a heart beat. But my C/C++ code isn't quite up to
> snuff and would probably get laughed out of the commit and more than
> likely rejected.
> 
> Even I have standards and I'd throw mine out in a heartbeat.
> 

On the contrary, there's much less of a mental barrier to saying "this
is crap, I'm going to fix it" than there is to "I'm going to write all
of this from scratch."

If it compiles and works, at the very least you've provided a working
test case!


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