On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:20:07AM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
>
>
> On 6/27/22 00:06, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> >
> >There was a lot of "strange" code in the codebase. I tried to
> >remove things that were obviously wrong, but there were confusing
> >cases and each required long investigation to decide if it was
> >useful or not. And some still remain.
> >
> >There was some evidence in the code that orignal developers
> >had to deal with intermitent errors and timing dependences.
> >
> >Also, note that killing viewman closes all graphic windows.
> >So the intent could be to have easy way to close graphic windows.
> >
>
> OK, following your logic, viewman may fail. The the auto restart
> will mask this bug.
Just to point out important difference: not installed libraries
are deterministic event and are easy to correct. viewman my
fail due to system reasons which are non-deteminstic and
not under our control.
> With my patch, we may identify this kind of failures and fix them.
> (Or we may never meet such "intermittent errors and timing
> dependencies".)
>
> [This is my last argument for this patch. If it is not accept this
> time, I'll test it on my computer, and will submit again before next
> release.]
Well, I have installed your patch in copy of FriCAS that I use.
I will look if it has any visible effect.
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Waldek Hebisch
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