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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Removing MacsBug symbols (was Re: how to put indelible...)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.185713.9640@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:57:13 +1200
- References: <14122@borg.cs.unc.edu> <14n8olINNsrr@agate.berkeley.edu> <D88-JWA.92Jul24000856@dront.nada.kth.se> <14nlugINN2qs@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <14nlugINN2qs@agate.berkeley.edu>, ewylie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Elizabeth Wylie) writes:
- > In article <D88-JWA.92Jul24000856@dront.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
- >> (You *DO* write betas, don't you? And you *DO* have more than one person (your kid sister doesn't count) test for you?)
- >
- >>Yes of course. A few Ks don't matter much, and I like getting
- >>mail from people who fix my bugs :-) I want others to feel the
- >>same way since there STILL is bugs in released software.
- >
- > When writing INITs, etc. I always make sure to keep the names off for the
- > "final" release. I'm really obsessive about system heap size. Mine is 4
- > meg on an 8 meg machine.
- >
- > It also gives me that "polishedd" feeling when I'm finally done with it.
-
- I used to turn off MacsBug symbols on the final build, too. Then I got to
- the stage that Steve Jasik aptly summed up as "so much code, so little time".
- In other words, with a lot of the stuff I'm doing these days, there's no
- such thing as a final build...
-
- Another appropriate saying that comes to mind is "No work of art is ever
- finished; it is only abandoned."
-
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