Re: Need some bug/version info

David> Because my request that included the specific date and time David> and comment from the XEmacs developer that could be dug out David> from the CVS logs _Your_ CVS logs, and AFAICT Nix is nothing like an XEmacs developer who happens to use preview-latex. I would absolutely _love_ to be proven wrong about that, too! "C'mon, Nix, who loves ya, baby!" David> It would appear obvious that _if_ somebody was intending to David> do the necessary research but considered it to take some David> time, he would indicate this, at the very least to save David> others doing unnecessary work. Why, David, I had no intention of doing the necessary work if Nix, or Uwe, or Steve Youngs, or Richard Stallman would do it for us. Some of these people have lives and/or spend much of their time "at the end of a long time lag...". So I was going to give them a week, which coincidentally coincides with a good time for me. I don't like the situation much better than you do, but there's only so much I can do single-handedly. See also http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200501/msg00297.html. In other words, no, I don't think anything's obvious about that. David> The bug was pretty severe: complete corruption of all image David> loads by :file specifier after dired has been loaded. Sounds spectacular! Nope, no spectacular bugs here, sorry. David> A thorough research on the mailing list also turns up David> <URL:http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2367671> David> where Nick describes the problem origin after hunting it David> down. Thank you. Now we have a place to start---this is actually about 20% of the way to a bug report at this point! David> I don't see why I should try to make a secret of that. David> That is not bringing anybody's "attitude" into play, as I David> don't indulge in speculation about the reasons. No, your users will do that for you, because they know and respect you. For good reason, too, and that's why I ask you to lighten up a bit. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.