Paul Rudin <paul.nos...@rudin.co.uk>: > Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: >> The feeling of powerlessness can be crushing when you depend on a >> third-party component that is broken with no fix in sight. > > Presumably it depends on whether you have the source for the third > party component...
Just having such an experience. The linux kernel has a critical bug in a major distribution (who shall be left unnamed here) that has been fixed in a later kernel version. Thanks to linux being free software, I managed to pin down the root cause after more than a month of debugging. I sent a bug report to the linux vendor and attached a tiny patch. The vendor has graciously agreed to consider releasing an update in the summer (we are in the process of verifying the fix). The problem was first detected in December. A semi-reliable reproduction was discovered in early February. The root cause and proposed fix was identified mid-March. A vendor fix will likely come out by the end of June. That's a long time to be without a product to sell. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
