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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] grimoire semantics
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:09:40 -0700


it fixed the problem in all cases i saw so in the interest of getting
something to work i went ahead and did it. if you have a better solution
you are more than welcome to implement it.

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:00:20AM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Andrew, I have a question about the change you made.
> Certain DB initialization function increased the number of parameters
> between 4.0 and 4.1. What would keep software relying on your solution
> from dumping core or smashing the stack because of this change? They'll
> be calling with one parameter less than required. How did you test that
> something actually works because of this fix? I don't mean linkage, I
> mean functionality. I apologize if I'm missing something abvious here.
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew wrote:
>
> >so this has been bugging me for a while, and maybe this was discussed
> >and i missed it so sorry if this is old news, but heres a problem im
> >noticing: theres a bug in a spell, and its in test. So we fix the bug
> >and apply it to the devel grimoire, then a week later it trickles down
> >to test, then to stable...that doesnt make test very easy to test and
> >stable very stable if a bug managed to slip by.
> >
> >Heres a real life example: theres a problem with the db spell such
> >that it wants libdb-4.0.so, but since we are using 4.1.25 everywhere,
> >it doesnt make that file, some software still wants it for whatever
> >reason, so if you symlink libdb.so to libdb-4.0.so everything magically
> >works. Now i could add one line of code to the BUILD file in the _devel_
> >grimoire. But the newbie that is having the problem is running test
> >because he wants things to be more stable. except this bug fix doesnt
> >really do anything until changes trickle down into test.
> >
> >Heres what i think we should do:
> >devel is reserved for: new spells, enhancements and bug fixes
> >test is allowed to have bug fixes applied to it at the same time as
> >fixes are applied to devel
> >stable ??? maybe we ought to allow minor fixes to transfer through?
> >
> >flames are welcome.
> >just my 2 cents.
> >
> >
>
>




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