Re: Distribution script format second (stupid) question
Re: Distribution script format second (stupid) question
- Subject: Re: Distribution script format second (stupid) question
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:10:52 +0200
On jeudi, septembre 6, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Peter Bierman wrote:
At 10:58 PM +0200 9/6/07, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
On mardi, septembre 4, 2007, at 09:39 PM, Peter Bierman wrote:
<installer-gui-script> was the element name initially, but was
simplified to <installer-script> before 10.4 went GM.
Unfortunately, a lot of Apple software is built from templates, and
things that aren't actively broken are low on the priority list for
fixing. Then the templates get copied, and things like this linger
for years.
Well, maybe it will bee sooner than later since I filed a bug report
against it...
But having seen bug reports in some parts of the OS being addressed
more than 3 years after their submission, I don't have great
expectancies though.
It's a question of priorities. Do we change (and re-test) something
that isn't causing an actual problem, or do we fix a bug that's
bothering someone?
As you say, it depends on priority. But on the other hand, as people
are using Apple's made packages as templates to create their own, you
might end up with a bunch of externally made packages that include the
incorrect tag and then you will have to support it even longer as if
you break the backward compatibility, there will be someone filing a
bug report or a DTS incident.
Imagining that Apple was to release a new major OS version in a few
months and a new format would be used for packages (as publicly stated
on http://xarchiver.blogspot.com/ and in a post on the xar mailing
list), wouldn't it be a great opportunity to deprecate this erroneous
tag for new packages in this new format?
These "correctness" bugs can end up languishing for years. The oldest
one in my own queue is from 1995 (and yes, still relevant, sigh.) On
the other side of that, I just had a bug returned to me to verify as
fixed that I filed in 1998.
I can't beat that hi-score.
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