From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Root of a GNAT problem (was: Gnat v3.05 bug or compilation problem
Date: 1996/12/13
Date: 1996-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.850511152@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32B01F8F.446B@cpmx.saic.com
John Cosby said
"Not just that - one of our guys was downloading the source for GNAT
yesterday because he couldn't find any other way of finding out if a
bug was fixed. A link from the ACT page to a list of bug reports,
with the version of GNAT that fixes the corresponding bugs, would be
nice and save lots of download time."
Well that makes no sense at all to me. Either this "guy" was supported or
he was not. If he was not supported, then there is insufficient information
anyway to determine whether his bug has been fixed. If he was supported,
then he received detailed information about his bug when it was fixed,
and can in any case ask for an update.
Actually we have found that publishing the list of open bugs is often
a complete waste of time. Any time people have tried to deduce information
from this list as to whether a particular bug is the same as theirs, they
have never been able to provide useful additional input. Many of the bugs
listed as open their are essentially undigested, and even the brief
description can be completely wrong, since it is often based on the origial
user report which turns out to be confused.
Properly classifying and understanding a bug report is often 90% of th3
work in fixing the bug, or figuring out that there is no bug in the first
place (undoubtedly a number of the bugs listed as open are not bugs at all),
so detailed analyses simply are not available.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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1996-11-27 0:00 ` Slice and Unbounded String Robert A Duff
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Ben Brosgol
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Gnat v3.05 bug or compilation problem MAKOUDI Jaouad (Stag. Kermarrec)
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Root of a GNAT problem (was: " Peter Hermann
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1996-12-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-12 0:00 ` John Cosby
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Slice and Unbounded String Robert Dewar
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