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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > Quanah, from past experience I know that making a test case is a research >> endeavor that can be quite costly. IMO, refusing to investigate a bug >> without a test case is not a sane support politics. >> > > Chasing "bugs" in 3rd party code that you haven't shared with us is not a > sane policy. If we can't see the code, we certainly can't identify the root > cause of the issue. Given that our library is working in our primary > application (slapd) as well as multiple other projects, the burden of proof > is on you to demonstrate that the bug is not caused by your C++ application. If you think it is acceptable for your library to die with "assert" because of a 3rd party code then I have no further questions about the "reliability" of your software. --047d7b10cce9fad8bc04cf6e2a0a Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Howard Chu <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href= =3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wr= ote:<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style= =3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im">Quanah, from past experien= ce I know that making a test case is a research<br> endeavor that can be quite costly. IMO, refusing to investigate a bug<br> without a test case is not a sane support politics.<br> </div></blockquote> <br> Chasing "bugs" in 3rd party code that you haven't shared with= us is not a sane policy. If we can't see the code, we certainly can= 9;t identify the root cause of the issue. Given that our library is working= in our primary application (slapd) as well as multiple other projects, the= burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that the bug is not caused by you= r C++ application.</blockquote> <div><br></div><div>If you think it is acceptable for your library to die w= ith "assert" because of a 3rd party code then I have no further q= uestions about the "reliability" of your software.</div></div> --047d7b10cce9fad8bc04cf6e2a0a--
