Re: Cocoa Loco
Re: Cocoa Loco
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Loco
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 06:56:01 -0500
on 03-03-03 4:25 PM, John Delacour at email@hidden wrote:
>
Filing bugs is a damn waste of time if you've got programmers there
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who simply cannot ever have tested the scriptability of their
>
applications in any serious way and when these applications remain
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unmodified for months if not years on end.
I haven't followed this thread and don't intend to. But I will make a
suggestion.
One major advantage of filing a well-designed bug report is that it goes to
the right people. In the case of Apple's applications that don't implement
AppleScript correctly, the right people are probably NOT our friends on the
AppleScript team, but the implementors of the application in question. Not
everybody at Apple yet understands or appreciates AppleScript.
So it might be a good idea, when you file a bug report about an AppleScript
implementation in some Apple application, to entitle it "<app name> bug",
not "AppleScript bug". (And, if there's any kind of scoring or auditing
procedure for the bug reporter, not fixing the bug will count against the
application implementors, where it belongs, not against the AppleScript
team.)
And, John, an adequate, if not perfect, bug report takes about a minute to
write -- two, at most -- in my personal experience. That's better than no
bug report at all IMHO.
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