assalaamu `alaykum On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:29, Thamer Mahmoud wrote: > abdulhaq writes: > > assalaamu `alaykum > > > > seeing as people are using ITL now 'in the wild' (via kprayertime for > > instance), it's vital (as far as I'm concerned) that all bug fixes are > > done as quickly as possible and proper releases made for them so that I > > can update kprayertime too. > > > > I think it would be a good idea to make up a test suite for the prayer > > time library so that each build can be checked for regression errors > > etc. I know it's a lot of work but I think it would reap a lot of > > benefits. Just a thought. If I get time I might start one myself. > > Sorry not to have replied earlier. I almost agree with all of your > points. However, I dislike frequent releases because there would be no > adequate period of time to do more testing on my (or anyone's) part. A > test suite of some sort might invalidate that point, though. >
I agree, it's a play off between getting the bug fix out there, and not introducing more bugs (which is very easy to do, of course). > Also, I'm currently thinking of creating a stable branch that holds > the 0.6.x while new features, minor bug fixes, and stuff that might > cause regressions go into 0.7. I don't want to unnecessarily > complicate things, but this is starting to sound more reasonable if > major bugs are found while the code in CVS is broken/untested (mostly > for future releases, developing other components, etc...). Anyone have > a thought on dealing with this? > A good idea IMHO > BTW abdulhaq, does the 0.6.2 release fixes the global variable problem > you mentioned here: (at the bottom paragraph) > http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2004/July/msg00156.html > It seems fine now here (on my machines) but I don't get much feedback from those downloading it so.... well, I think it's fine. Is there a real need for a global variable at all - it does lead to hard-to-find bugs sometimes? wassalaam abdulhaq _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
