guys, it was so funny to see you biting each other. come on, can you do it one more time, please ?
2012/1/23 Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:38 PM, L. V. Lammert <l...@omnitec.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: > > > > <snip the BS> > >> > > There is no way of knowing if it would have found the problem, so why > > continue with this drivel? Contrary to the lengthy diatribes here trying > > to distract from the original problem an solution: > > > > 1) The problem with locate was traced to a bunch of session files; > > 2) The problem was fixed by cleaning them the hard way. > > > > There is no way to know if an upgrade would have fixed the problem, as > > upgrading is/was/would be just a distraction; it is not good practice to > > try and obscure the problem, and I do not understand why some people here > > like to expouse such practices. > > > > Sure, there is no support for 4.3, but, then I did not ASK for support on > > 4.3 (to read the OP). Don't bother to try and dixtract from the original > > problem - it juse makes it harder for those LOOKING for the problem and > > solution to find it in all the noise. > > As someone who's faced this kind of thing from both sides, I think > you're going to have a long term problem with the "just help me fix > the system I have, don't bother with telling me to upgrade" approach. > Too many bugs are fixed as part of re-engineering or feature addition, > and expecting even the authors, whom you are not paying for contracted > work, to maintain the old releases becomes futile pretty quickly. It's > difficult for them to maintain the old environments as test beds, or > to dredge back that far into memory of how things used to be done. > I've been running into this for decades, all the way back to the shift > from BSD 4.2 to BSD 4.3. (Note that that is not OpenBSD, it's BSD.) > > The yelling and namecalling is unfortunate. But from observation and > professional experience, if you want professional grade support for a > software livecycle of over 3 years, you should be willing to pay for > it.
