Making computers work

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 22:16, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
>
It will take less time than making one checkbox wit a caption to explain it?

Sasha