Re: Xcode bug
Re: Xcode bug
- Subject: Re: Xcode bug
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:01:58 +0100
On lundi, octobre 27, 2003, at 12:08 AM, Alastair J.Houghton wrote:
(oh, by the way, I think the "Send a bug report to Apple" thing is
totally Microsoft-like -- even as a freeware developer, I would be
ashamed to have my users spend time to fix MY bugs, and Panther is
not freeware, it's 149.
*Any* developer should be pleased to accept bug reports from their
users. If you are claiming that you write perfect code and can
feasibly test 100% of possible scenarios before release, then I'm
sorry, but I don't believe you.
I don't think this is what is saying. What is saying is that he thinks
the QA on Panther is low. For the French localization, I do agree on
this point and have already filed bug report on this. But there's some
hope on this matter, as 2.5 years after the release of Mac OS X, they
have discovered that "Progiciel" was a wrong localization for "Package".
For other potential issues, well, I don't want to write my real opinion
on this.
As for the "Send a bug report to Apple" thing, I personally think it's
a stupid move. Not because it allows users to report bugs with a crash
log which is very useful but because Apple is going to receive bug
reports for every software on Mac OS X which could have a bug (let' say
99.99% of them, excluding the "Hello world!" software) and it's going
to bring confusion to users and a lot of unwanted work for Apple. Since
the actual developers is not receiving the bug report but the user
thinks he had sent one, it's not going to please either the developer
or the user.
What could have been done to make this "Send a bug report" solution a
real solution was to publish new items to add to the Info.plist file to
provide for a software an e-mail and some other potentials info to be
used by this Crash assistant to send the crash report to the
appropriate company. I understand that it's not possible to do this
for command line tools and that finding the path of the crashed
application is not an easy task but it's not impossible to do this for
Packaged application.
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