Re: i need help urgently

[Gili]

Nathan brings up a good point. You should at least document the problem in an easy-to-find place like the config.xml file.

Gili

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:32:54 -0800, Nathan Cheng wrote:

>Like I said before, I would rather have been the guy sending you hate emails for making me switch at the time I upgraded
>because then we could have dealt with the problem on our own terms--rather than getting burned by an enourmous fire in
>our live production environment.
>
>I understand "deprecated" to mean that a different design choice has been made, not that something is buggy and is going
>to deadlock the system.
>
>If you don't want to remove the buggy code, please at least put a warning in config.xml that mordred under certain
>normal circumstances will deadlock.
>
>Nathan
>
>Serge Knystautas wrote:
>
>> Nathan Cheng wrote:
>>
>>> Because it was not "replaced"--it is still distributed with James
>>> 2.2.0. On top of that, the config.xml distributed with James 2.2.0
>>> does not say that it is buggy, but rather that it is simply
>>> "deprecated in favor of". On top of that, Noel is still using it. And
>>> on top of that, it just bit me really hard.
>>>
>>> So I wish that you had indeed "replaced" this broken code 14 months
>>> ago. By all means, please do it now.
>>
>>
>> We tell new users what to do (say it is deprecated), we still leave it
>> there for users who want to go against our advice (Noel).
>>
>> I'm sorry this hit you so severely, but everytime there's a bug, I
>> cannot simply delete the code that had problems.
>>
>> <attempted-humor>
>> Or rather, I would get /different/ hate emails from users saying, "My
>> configuration worked perfectly with version x.y. I just wasted 2 days
>> because of some forced change when I upgraded to version x.z. Every
>> time one of you developers get some whim, I'm stuck reconfiguring my
>> server that was working perfectly!!!"
>> </attempted-humor>
>>
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