> As I informed you when you made this claim before, neither of these
> situations occurs here. I am surprised that once disproved you would
> persist with them?
All the best developers say with the upmost certainty that there is no bug
because it cannot be reproduced on their system. Surely it is not correct to
say that a situation is 'disproved' simply because you cannot reproduce this
problem on your machine. If this is your code (I don't know if it is or not)
and your feelings are hurt because someone repeatedly says it doesn't work,
well tough ! All coders, myself included, must set feelings aside when
submitting there code for test. Unfortunately pride does not come into the
equation when someone finds a bug in your code.
Owen
On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> Civileme wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, kdiskfree seems to be seriously bugged. I like it and use it in
> > 6.1 but on partitions of 6 G or so I am always shown 1.86G. Another problem is
> > accurately representing nfs mounts .... I am not among those who believe a
> > broken tool is better than no tool at all.
>
> As I informed you when you made this claim before, neither of these
> situations occurs here. I am surprised that once disproved you would
> persist with them?
>
> > But looking at the latest source tarball from kde.org, I
> > am encountering coding errors in kdf that the compiler will not accept.
>
> Surely such things are easily corrected at the source level? Such
> activity by Mandrake is what results in the -<number>mdk versions -
> it is their job. But thanks for attempting a compile.
>
> > So, I think they are making the right decision even if their reasons are
> > different.
>
> I am still awaiting their decision and rationale - so far, nothing.
>
> Again, although installing kdf-0.5.1-1mdk.i586.rpm from 6.1 produces
> two warnings, I assure you all that it works just fine in all
> respects for me in both 7.0 and 7.1 with > 6GB partitions and nfs
> mounts galore and is in constant use with no problems. A wonderful
> piece of software!
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Mandrake Linux.
