> Duncan Murdoch: > > No, I don't think it's reasonable to expect you to write a patch, but > reporting the bugs in the R bug reporting system isn't that hard to do, > and does lead to fixes pretty rapidly in cases where the report contains > sample code to reproduce the problem.
Sometimes. Sometimes not. For instance, PR #14985, a significant set of bugs, with an easy fix (patch provided), which took almost two years to make it to an R Core release - perhaps because you were more interested in trying to argue that they weren't really bugs at all... > "Fixed a problem in R_AllocStringBuffer that could result in a crash due > to an invalid memory access" sounds serious, but is just too vague to > follow up. I would expect that doing a diff on the source files is > going to find all sorts of stuff: pqR isn't just R with bugs fixed, it > has a lot of other changes too. You might expect that if it was really that difficult, I would have given more detail. I think if you actually looked at this procedure, which is about 30 lines long, you might, seeing as you've been warned that it has a bug, find the problem in about 30 seconds, even without looking at the pqR source code, which of course isn't difficult to do. > it would be more > helpful to the community if the bugs actually got fixed. Indeed. > I think all of > the bugs that you reported last June got fixed within a couple of weeks Actually, the last six in the list I just posted are from the original pqR release last June. Some of the six don't seem too crucial, but two of them seem reasonably serious (one leads to R crashing). > Why not report them > more frequently than annually, and give the details you already have so > they are easier to fix? I did report at least one bug not long ago (which got fixed), after seeing (as now) that an R Core release was imminent, and therefore thinking it would be best if a fix was put in before it went out. You're of course welcome to look at the NEWS file at pqR-project.org whenever you like. Radford Neal ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
