Re: itl library question

[abdulhaq <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>]

assalaamu `alaykum

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:29, Thamer Mahmoud wrote:
> abdulhaq writes:
>  > assalaamu `alaykum
>  >
>  > seeing as people are using ITL now 'in the wild' (via kprayertime for
>  > instance), it's vital (as far as I'm concerned) that all bug fixes are
>  > done as quickly as possible and proper releases made for them so that I
>  > can update kprayertime too.
>  >
>  > I think it would be a good idea to make up a test suite for the prayer
>  > time library so that each build can be checked for regression errors
>  > etc. I know it's a lot of work but I think it would reap a lot of
>  > benefits. Just a thought. If I get time I might start one myself.
>
> Sorry not to have replied earlier. I almost agree with all of your
> points. However, I dislike frequent releases because there would be no
> adequate period of time to do more testing on my (or anyone's) part. A
> test suite of some sort might invalidate that point, though.
>

I agree, it's a play off between getting the bug fix out there, and not 
introducing more bugs (which is very easy to do, of course).

> Also, I'm currently thinking of creating a stable branch that holds
> the 0.6.x while new features, minor bug fixes, and stuff that might
> cause regressions go into 0.7. I don't want to unnecessarily
> complicate things, but this is starting to sound more reasonable if
> major bugs are found while the code in CVS is broken/untested (mostly
> for future releases, developing other components, etc...). Anyone have
> a thought on dealing with this?
>

A good idea IMHO

> BTW abdulhaq, does the 0.6.2 release fixes the global variable problem
> you mentioned here: (at the bottom paragraph)
> http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2004/July/msg00156.html
>

It seems fine now here (on my machines) but I don't get much feedback from 
those downloading it so.... well, I think it's fine. Is there a real need 
for a global variable at all - it does lead to hard-to-find bugs sometimes?

wassalaam
abdulhaq