Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:49:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/ncurses/include curses.h.in src/contrib/ncurses/ncurses/trace lib_trace.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005231644430.49900-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20000523153625.A30373@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > Nothing is that urgent that we should go around spamming arbitrary files when
> > its been made clear that the vendor plans to or already has changed his
> > side.
>
> His answer was unknown at the moment of fixing, his availability was unknown
> too. He may not reply a week, like many vendors does.
This problem has been known for well over a month. Attempting to
contact the ncurses author, and/or discussing your propsed fix on one of
the mailing lists, then waiting a day or two to let everyone get up to
speed on the problem would not have resulted in too significant of a delay
in getting the problem fixed.
This particular problem is not a huge one, so please don't feel
like everyone is ganging up on you. The point is simply that for the
future, it's better to discuss first.
For instance, another acceptable short term solution to fix bash
would be to comment out the trace() function temporarily, since it's only
used when you put the shell in debug mode (it can't be reached
otherwise). Of course, you could always delay adding the option to compile
the shell static until after this had all been sorted out...
Doug
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