What Are Your Views On BUGS?

[urlwolf]

I started switching back to Mediamonkey 3.
Oh!
The pain!
There are bugs in the bugs!

[Renegade]

I started switching back to Mediamonkey 3.
Oh!
The pain!
There are bugs in the bugs!

-urlwolf (February 04, 2008, 11:49 AM)

Wouldn't those then be parasites?

[f0dder]

A few minor bugs can be tolerable, as long as no data loss is involved. As previously mentioned, explorer² crashes every once in a while (though not daily) for me as well, but almost only on exit - and considering how excellent the program is, that's bugs I can live with.

If some product had major bugs and there was no replacement, I'd probably end up reverse engineering it to fix the bug

[Eóin]

As I try to write more and more complicated applications myself I have become a lot more tolerant of bugs in other peoples software. And this especially true when the bug seems random because I am learning myself just how hard those types are to track down.

[Renegade]

As I try to write more and more complicated applications myself I have become a lot more tolerant of bugs in other peoples software. And this especially true when the bug seems random because I am learning myself just how hard those types are to track down.

-Eóin (February 05, 2008, 07:05 AM)

Amen.

I've got bugs that aren't *MY* bugs, but they affect my software. There's a serious bug that is in an audio driver that affects me. Not good. It's rare, so I won't fix it. (Sometimes you have to sacrifice.)

I've also got other bugs that are totally my own fault. They'll get fixed.

Another class I find are "environment" bugs (I use the term very loosely there). These can range from simple to find to impossible to locate. I recently was able to reproduce a bug, but I can't precisely define the real problem. Not fun. I'll have to hack around some BS to fix it most likely, which I don't like. I prefer to have straight forward, simple and easy code that is clear.

[4wd]

Personally I think bugs are intolerable, inexcusable, and grounds for uninstalling a program.

Except when they are in programs i write, then they are just minor inconveniences barely worth mentioning.

-mouser (February 03, 2008, 01:31 PM)

Actually, in your case Mouser, they are evidence of its hand-crafted nature