Hello Ken, On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:15:16 -0800 GMT (28/12/2003, 03:15 +0700 GMT), Ken Stuart wrote:
TF>> I think yours is a feature request, not a bug. > Well, I think the currently used terminology is insufficient to cover > the realities of software engineering. No. > Yes, a "bug" tends to refer to an unintended occurrence. A bug is when the software works different from the design. > However, a "feature request" tends to refer to something that would > be helpful, but not mandatory. A feature request is an additional functionality (in this case an option) by the user. > Not registering the time and date of sending is an incorrect > functioning of the program. I doubt anyone can find another e-mail > client, out of the several dozen out there, that does this. Thus it is > a "design bug", rather than a "code bug". I have never heard of a "design bug". There are faulty designs, but a "bug" is AFAIK always related to the code. In this case, I don't think even the design is faulty, as it is your oipion that it should behave differently, but it is not objectively wrong. A design fault would be if I clicked on the "get mail" icon and instead of picking up the mail, TB would register itself as the default browser - if this is according to the design, it wouldn't be a bug. But a bad design. Especially in software engineering, terminology like "bug" has been well defined. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/bug.html http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/f/feature.html -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.02.3 CE under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
