John Levon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:35:09PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
>> Reasons given:
>> 1) It is hard to fix.
>> 2) It is easy to remove the pipes manually.
>> I think this is a bad attitude towards bugs. Why not stop all development
>> in lyx? You can fix all bugs in latex code(easily) ;-)
> You did not understand what I wrote.
"It is not possible to check whether the pipes are "still in use",
at least not without some serious work."
This can be paraphrased: it is hard to fix.
"It is simple enough to "rm" the pipes after a crash, therefore WONTFIX."
This can be paraphrased as: It is easy to remove the pipes manually.
What part of your reply to the bug report didn't I understand?
>> If recovering from a crash is so hard to do automatically, just offer a
>> gui for manual deletion if the pipes already exist, when lyx starts.
> This is not what your report asked for.
Bug reports point to a problem. They might offer a possible solution, but it
might not be the right solution. The developer decides what solution fixes
the bug. Or he just ignores the bug and says it is easy to work around the
bug (WONTFIX). A better alternative is to discuss possible solutions for
the problem before just closing it.
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pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler
du pain.
(ANATOLE FRANCE)
