Re: little rant 1.4 and WO
Re: little rant 1.4 and WO
- Subject: Re: little rant 1.4 and WO
- From: Scott Ellsworth <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:37:38 -0800
For what it is worth, I never trust software updates on critical
systems. Generally, I have had good luck, but the failures (on lin,
win, and mac) have all been memorable.
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 06:08 AM, John Cassidy wrote:
It all comes down to this: If Apple, or any software company, puts
their name on a product, for instance Web Objects, and then offers an
AUTOMATIC update that is NOT compliant w/ Web Objects, the update
should be allowed as an automatic update.
I suppose what really frosts me about this is the perceived lack of
testing by the WO team. Apple has been distributing seeds of Java
1.4.1 since last October, and anyone with a free online developer
license could get them. Was the WO team grabbing them and trying basic
qualification on the pre-releases?
If they were, then whatever is causing problems appeared between the
last seed and the release. This happens sometimes, and usually means a
quick patch, as the problem is not fundamental to the new architecture.
This evidence of due diligence on the part of the WO team would help
us sleep easier.
If they did not do that testing, then the patch might well take longer,
and I am rather vexed.
I shall wait in happy anticipation, but I do see this as someone
dropping the ball. Again, if it was a last minute change introduced
between the final beta and the release of Java, neither side is really
at fault, but if there was a way to find it earlier, then I would have
expected some testing and a comment in the release notes. (NB -
testing done by the WO team would produce critical priority bugs, which
the Java team would then either fix or highlight as a known issue
allowing us to decide not to apply the update.)
Scott
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