Re: Installing RAD7/EGL when WDSC already exists

Joe Pluta wrote:

From: Buck

I have some editorial commentary that I will abstain from posting. It
appears to me that the wiki page was a factual accounting of an actual
problem and the workaround as supplied by IBM. I believe that this
content is completely appropriate in the wiki.

Read my post, Buck. My ONLY point, and the ONLY reason I posted, was that
there was a title that said that WDSC and RBDe are not compatible, and this
is factually INCORRECT and thus absolutely inappropriate on a Wiki or any
place else.

Is my point clear?

Your point is clear but incorrect. Aaron documented one case where they are incompatible and Vern documented another in October: http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200710/msg00295.html

There are definitely instances where the peculiarities of a given Windows machine cause a WDSCi problem that no one else can seem to replicate. You yourself note some of the variables: http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200710/msg00140.html

Yes, your install works. Vern and Aaron had actual problems. I believe those problems and the officially sanctioned workaround should not be suppressed (the current state of affairs). You could have edited the wiki to note that your install worked without a problem and that would have been an additional fact for readers to have available.

Let me be clearer: not ALL instances of WDSCi and RDBe are compatible, we have two examples where they are not. That is a fact. Documenting that fact in a wiki intended to help people seems like a perfect match. There's nothing wrong with adding the additional fact that other installations work without a hitch.

--buck