Re: How to make a useful bug report
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 27, 2012
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which strangely YOU dispute later on . . .
I see no dispute in the quote below.
How good of you. It wasn't below, it was LATER.
Ok, so you are refering to my mistake then, where I switched from thinking this was the cause to doubting it before testing it and realizing it was the cause.
[09:35] <katsmeow-afk> or, i don't see a missing % [09:35] <katsmeow-afk> it's missing, ic annot see it [09:36] <katsmeow-afk> do you want to fix it am appologise to me, or shall i appologise to me for you? [09:36] <iamlost> katsmeow-afk: i'd prefer the later, thank you very much.
so i appologised to me for you in private, even tho the appology was related to you saying i had installed Eu wrong in this forum.
Where did I say that? I deny saying that. Please give a direct quote.
Um, no, i have spent enough time on this crap.
I can't disagree with that. Still, my position is that I never said you had installed Eu incorrectly, and I'll continue to deny any statement to the contrary.You're mistaken here.
[09:37] <mattlewis> does the bug there fix katsmeow-afk's problem? [09:37] <katsmeow-afk> and, why has this not been caught before?!? [09:37] <iamlost> mattlewis: i doubt it [09:37] <iamlost> mattlewis: based on her PATH, she seems to have bigger issuesBOOM There, you disregarded my bug report. I had already run the fixed bat file and euc by then, and it completed, apparently properly. But you said i have bigger issues with the install or path.
I didn't disregard it, I just said that I doubted it (based on incomplete information at the time and a lack of understanding on how Windoze deals with percent signs). Which I did admit later on:
"doubt" is "disbelief", that is: you did not believe the fix i had.
1) I discovered it first, so it is my fix. 2) I did have a moment of disbelief when I saw your path and it didn't match what I thought. I had a second moment of disbelief when I tested it out and realized that my conception was wrong.
This is normal, facts get doubted and checked again and again when developing and debugging.
At no point did I doubt you on a personal level. If you had suddenly said I was wrong because you tested it and the fix worked so that really was the bug, I would have believed you. Ok, I would have retested it myself anyways - but that doesn't mean I didn't believe in you.
If you leave out a %, windows will predictably mangle the PATH, *how* it mangles it is irrelavant, just like how Unix treats it is irrelavant.
Sure it is. I expected the PATH to be mangled to C:\Euphoria-4.0.4\bin;%WATCOM\binw;C:\Euphoria-4.0.4\WATCOM\binnt or maybe to C:\Euphoria-4.0.4\bin;WATCOM\binw;C:\Euphoria-4.0.4\WATCOM\binnt
Since it wasn't mangled the way that I expected it to be, I got confused and started doubting things. But then I started to have doubts about that and decided to double check.
Of course, at no point did I disregard your bug, or state that I was disregarding it. That was a false assumption on your part.
You merely didn't believe it.
The sequence of events was:
1) I find the bug, believe that it's the cause of your PATH problems. 2) I see your path, the output doesn't fit what I expect, so I start having doubts. 3) Matt quickly interjects and asks what I think. 4) I then have more doubts, and do a test that shows I was originally correct.
Thanks for disregarding the fact that I pointed out only a single dev or two (as opposed to the entire dev team) will handle the ticket!
Irrelavant, others have freely jumped in on the bashing before.
That's my point: no one else should jump in.
Then why are you on the forums and IRC channel at all?
Wow, what part did you not catch about the start of the topic i started??
I caught everything, thanks. I'm still waiting for an answer to this question.
