do not be too hard on yourself. Thanks for checking.
On Aug 18, 9:39 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2009, at 3:59 AM, mdipierro wrote:
>
>
>
> > I think would be an unnecessary constraint.
> > Bugs are always in new features and the more people use is the more
> > likely they are found.
>
> web2py is especially easy to update, so managing fixes is relatively
> painless. Not quite as easy as the one-click updates in, say,
> WordPress, but WP has the advantage of being able to assume that
> there's always an admin interface available.
>
> Of course, not all fixes are urgent, but when normal operation leads
> to a crash, or when there's a new security vulnerability, it's nice to
> see prompt action.
>
> The IS_STRONG bug (not IS_LENGTH, actually) was my fault, and
> illustrates the danger of cosmetic patches. (I was fixing up the
> validator messages, and in doing meant to change "some message" +
> variable to a Python %-formatted string, and my fingers automatically
> typed the C syntax instead. Oops.)
>
> The new fix is obvious and safe; mine not so much, but the cosmetic
> diffs obscured the new bug, I'm afraid, so it slipped through the
> review process without getting caught. I should have tested that path,
> too, but I was thinking of it as simple typo fixes, not substantial.
> Well, there's a lesson in there.
>
>
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Aug 18, 5:24 am, Anand Vaidya <anandvaidya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Massimo,
>
> >> I have a suggestion:
>
> >> Why not web2py be released on a schedule (say one stable release
> >> every
> >> six months), and all the minor releases such as 1.66.0 , 1.66.1 etc
> >> folded into either beta or release candidates?
>
> >> This will help in stable releases with adequate test releases.
>
> >> Regards
> >> Anand
>
> >> On Aug 18, 1:32 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> >>> 1.66.1 posted
>
> >>> fixes a bug in IS_LENGTH
> >>> allows actions to return unicode strings (automatically converted to
> >>> utf8)
>
> >>> please check it.
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