[5483] in Athena Bugs
Re: SOMEBODY FIBBED TO ME ABOUT REMOVE.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jul 10 22:08:17 1990
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 22:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, athena-ws@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, f_l@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <oaY3_CEGG02=03DohC@athena.mit.edu>
Two weeks ago I sounded general quarters over this:
Course lockers that change the font path must clean up after themselves
on detach.
The advertised solution of using remove does not work.
The ez group has gone to great lengths to advertise remove as being the
thing to do.
We still have no solution to this problem and code cut is Friday.
COULD WE PLEASE DISCUSS A SOLUTION IN TIME FOR 7.1?
Should we write a new alias that undoes an add?
Should we tell users of the Andrew locker to use setup instead of add?
Should we make remove undo either add or setup?
The current situation of extensively documenting a method that does not
work is unacceptable.
-wdc
