[4669] in testers
Re: something wierd with changing Mail application -- Linux Only.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 24 13:21:26 2001
Message-Id: <200105241721.NAA08951@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 May 2001 16:18:17 -0000."
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:21:16 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> How many other programs are bit by this?
A bunch, in lockers, including some third-party software (the case I
know about is Matlab, and we're moving to a newer version which
doesn't have a problem, though).
> Is there finer granularity than this? Other people than Bill Cattey
> are gonna be hurt by the 'you tried to make a short cut to a binary
> you can't recompile; you have to disable xalf everywhere because it
> doesn't play well with old programs' bug.
There is no finer granularity. It seems likely that we will be forced
to turn it off in GNOME and explicitly run things under xalf from the
menus and launchers where it works to do so.
(On the other hand, having it turned on in GNOME has given xalf an
excellent workout, and has led to us fixing many bugs which would have
otherwise bitten us later. So all is not lost.)
