Re: bug in ed-0.3/ed-0.4

[Claudio Fontana]

Hello Andrew,

On 3/8/07, Andrew L. Moore <address@hidden> wrote:
> Antonio,
> What happened to the new version of ed that I gave you last summer
> which you were so eager to clean up for distribution?  After a
> cursory look at "your" code, what I see is ed-0.2.  In the handful
> of places where you took the liberty to change ed 0.2, you introduced
> dangerous errors.  A few examples (far from complete):
>
>  1) Your code breaks on NFS file systems.  Hint: don't touch open files.
>  2) It may look pretty to your aesthetic, but a comparison such as
>               if (big_uint_a > 2* big_uint_b) ...
>     will overflow.
>  3) C-d on stdin is not handled properly, or at all in some cases.
>  4) File I/O is broken.

These are serious issues.
If Antonio does not want to handle them, I think we should put ed in
unmaintained state again :(

> Perhaps it is time to cut your loses and withdraw your work from
> circulation. Say the word, and I am happy to take over your difficult job.
> -AM

It would be ok, but wasn't the original problem that you had not enough time to
maintain ed in the first place?
Btw I experienced the same thing since I started my new full time job,
as much as I loved maintaining idutils, I had to step down.

Bye,

Claudio