On Sun, 15 Oct 1995, Brad Shantz wrote:
Whoops, wrong. BETA does not mean code "they know crashes." In fact it is quite the opposite. This is pre-release code that they are bug fixing. most of the catastrophic bugs, they probably know about. A BETA program is to increase the testing and quality assurance staff to find all of the bugs they DON'T know about. Then, they will have a reasonable amount of time to fix those bugs before release. It makes for a much more stable product.
Well it took me 30 minutes to find my first repeatable 'core' dumping bug in the v2.0beta when I started playing with it this morning. How stable is that? Mind you, the bug appears to be probably due to a missed variable assignment. I have an idea about where to look for more bugs but I'll probably wait some time before I start looking in earnest, I suppose the challenge is to look for bugs in the final release version :-). eric (who wants a 'I debuged netscape' Tshirt to go with his 'I hacked netscape' Tshirt and his RSA yoyo :-) -- Eric Young | Signature removed since it was generating AARNet: eay@mincom.oz.au | more followups than the message contents :-)