Re: [Gnumed-bugs] Is git (master) properly emailing unhandled exception reports?

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:38:44PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> I ask because I downloaded and ran from master tarball.
> Good news that I now got sufficiently far in GNUmed via
> MacPorts (but only on Leopard 10.5, not yet on Snow Leopard
> 10.6) to activate Kirk. Accordingly, at least on Leopard,
> getting GNUmed client "up" can be achieved.

Excellent. I merged the mac branch into master (it only
contained some threading test code over master so far
anyway).

> Now that I know it can be achieved (with the basic method now updated on our 
> wiki page "MacPorts") my question is...
> 

> ... whether unhandled exceptions are commonplace and
> obvious to the developer(s) e.g. Karsten and so there is
> little point in ordinary non-developer users reporting
> reporting them...

The trick is finding/provoking them which requires actually
running the client on the platform in question so unless
someone on Mac actually tests the functionality we won't be
finding the bugs :-)

> maybe for people like me, the value to the
> project is greater on test pre-releases and actual releases
> and to feed back on those?

You mean test on Mac or test in general ?  In any case any
testing is useful if it uncovers bugs :-)

Regular testing of the master branch is particularly useful.

Karsten
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