[Python-Dev] OS information, tags (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Apr 13 18:58:27 CEST 2010

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:21:07 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > While there is some Windows and Mac specific code, treating them as > > separate components seems fairly unintuitive. > > Not always unintuitive. There are some features only available on a > particular platform, then "component" sort of makes sense. OTOH, > there are some bugs that are only available on a particular platform > even though the code is generic. There "component" isn't very > intuitive. In theory, I could see having both the component and the > platform fields, but probably that would require too much user > education to be worth it.

Yep, that's where the "fairly" qualification came from. It particularly made sense when we had all those Mac OS 9 specific modules kicking around. This isn't something I feel strongly about - just pointing out to the triage guys that requesting a change is an option if they think it would help.

It's not really a question of what Triage needs, but what the committers as a whole would find most useful. As I said in another note, I think having a separate OS selection would cause just as many triage issues as the current setup does. So the question is, what would developers and bug searchers/submitters find useful?

That said, it's easier to add components and keywords than it is to add a new selection box. I know how to do the former but not (yet) the latter.

-- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com

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