Making computers work

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:10:13PM +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:

> Absolutely true, but lets face facts, bug free software is unheard of. There 
> will always be something which behaves a little bit oddly, particularly in 
> software with any level of complexity. Not acknowledging this reality is 
> living in denial. While you should try to make computers work as well as 
> possible, mainly through software, because as you said, most hardware does 
> not have random bugs, you should also try to make the fixes for when it 
> doesn't accessible, because they will never be completely redundant.

Well, no. For instance, in the current case, nobody seems to have 
reported problems with dapper. Should we implement workarounds in case 
it reoccurs? As has been previously noted, these things aren't free. 
Development of workarounds takes away time that could be put into other 
parts of the project - and, often, fixing a given bug will take much 
less time than implementing a user-friendly workaround.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org