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- From: PHILMONT@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Philmont SW Mill, Jesse Feiler,PAS)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
- Subject: Suggestion on bugs, tips
- Message-ID: <726676532.6815484@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 14:25:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
- Organization: AppleLink Gateway
- Lines: 38
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- I've been thinking about the latest discussions of MacApp bugs, fixes, unfixes,
- etc. Jeff's suggestion of collecting these in FrameWorks seems a good idea, but
- I wonder if we can go one better.
-
- If we devise a standard format for such items, MADA could collect them
- electronically and publish them as Jeff suggested on the code disk. In additon
- to the bug fixes, I would suggest that workarounds and tips be included. Anyone
- could submit them, and MADA would have no responsibility other than collating
- and publishing them. This seems like an application that really is appropriate
- for HyperCard.
-
- MADA could prepare an empty HyperCard stack which anyone can download and then
- use for creating bug/tip reports. The fields should be:
- short description (e.g., Cells incorrectly broken in page breaks in
- TGridView)
- MacApp method(s), object(s) affected
- lengthy description
- workaround/fix
- submitter's name, E-address, date
- keywords for searching
- MacApp version this is relevant to
-
- This is what most people already put in an AppleLink message, and shouldn't
- take much time to enter. MADA would explicitly not correct or edit this data.
- There will be misspellings (although we'd hope that the names of the MacApp
- methods would not be mangled), duplications, and contradictions. There will
- even be some errors. Although I'm not a big fan of Hypercard, in a situation
- like this it seems that the simple searching capabilities would work well, and
- allow the ultimate user to poke around looking for alternate solutions and
- workarounds for problems. No XCMDs, no fancy scripts, no nothing should be
- added. By keeping it very simple for contributor, browser and MADA, it might
- actually work.
-
- Whatever mechanism MADA has to put together to do this (and it shouldn't be
- much effort) could be reused for other platforms that come along in the future.
-
- Jesse
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