Hi Peter, V st, 18. 02. 2009 v 11:01, Peter Memishian píše: > > Why so many complains for one simple bug? > > It is not one simple bug, it is the latest in a sequence of bugs related > to this change. There is a case to be made that some of these bugs could > have been caught prior to integration given more testing, such as 6790805 > and 6793120. There were also more subtle bugs (such as 6805584) that I > doubt we would've caught. There are others that have not yet been > root-caused, such as 6800517. In the end, it is all time lost :-/ >
Yes, I know, lots of annoying bugs, some could be solved by better testing pre-RTI. But usually simple bugs, not system panic, data corruption etc. They made some bugs but they also asked for help with testing, they made their preintegration packages available and announced them widely. How many people helped them? > > Maybe wrong decision, maybe good (less code duplicity). > > There are lots of ways to share code. FWIW, in the case of sleep, there > wasn't a whole lot to share -- the venerable old binary was all of 94 > lines of source code, including comments. Sure, it doesn't have all sorts > of bells and whistles, but it also just worked and got out of your way, > which is what a simple, core utility should do. > I agree. I also like simple tools. But there are people complaining about missing "bells and whistles". We can ignore them or we can implement them or try to use something already available. > To be clear, I am not opposed to the idea of sharing code -- far from it. > I am also not opposed to the idea of using the AST codebase to subsume > grotty commands that are complex or have conformance/maintenance issues. > However, sleep was simple and harmless, and last required a change in > 1996, hence my opposition. > Yes, it was simple and harmless. Without "bells and whistles"... :-( Best regards, Milan _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
