On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:24:25PM +1200, David McNab wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 03:31, Toad wrote: > > > It is a critical node bug - a complete showstopper for anyone using > > > splitfiles over FCP. > > > > No it isn't. It works perfectly well locally > > Wrong - two other people are reporting the bug in localhost connections.
Well, is it fixed in current unstable? > > > and anyone advanced enough > > to be using FCP from another machine is probably capable of setting up > > an SSL tunnel. > > I'd use the Python remote object broker software I've hacked up. > Or other solutions. > > But, stepping back a little, why have I and others run into SEP-shields, > or received HTFS responses? > > <rant> > Freenet is a phenomenal, revolutionary concept. The project is now in > its 4th or 5th year. Yet it still seems to be sidelined and regarded as > a 'technical plaything'. Little by little, reactions of denial, 'HTFS', > 'NMP' etc tend to reinforce this reputation. > </rant> > > When people confront me with bugs in my code that I can't reproduce on > my gear, I litter my code with all kinds of diagnostic logging and send > them a custom cut. They send me the logs. Repeat cycle till I know > what's going on, fix, get them to send patch, until bugs go away. > > Why I feel all this to be an issue is that with (reportedly) build 5020, > all was fine, and with (reportedly) 5021, things broke. So someone broke > something, albeit in a way which doesn't manifest for all users. > > > > In the meantime, I might recommend that the 'official release' be > > > temporarily reverted to build 5020. > > > > That is completely overreacting. > > I'm not sure you'd feel that way if the bug was happening to you. > I still believe that FCP client programmers deserve at least to see a > link on the website mentioning the problem, and making available a > freenet.jar build which doesn't have that problem. Even if not that, > they deserve some kind of warning that 'some of the FCP FEC commands may > result in blocked sockets and send/receive failures'. > > -- > Cheers > David > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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