[Python-Dev] User's complaints (original) (raw)

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Thu Jul 13 12:23:44 CEST 2006 

Neal> I agree, but some of this responsibility has to fall to users.
Neal> Sometimes these breakages are bugs, pure and simple.  Our tests
Neal> don't catch everything.  This is why it's really, really important
Neal> to get as many alpha/beta testers as possible.  Had the issues
Neal> been brought up before 2.4 was released, we could have addressed
Neal> them.

You're of course preaching to the choir here. Somehow we need to do a better job convincing the Python-using public to pay attention to alphas and betas, especially software consultants like Greg Black.

Another area where this particular process broke down was that there simply wasn't already a test case for the fairly common case of calling strftime with a six-zeroes pad to format a simple date. Had it been there already, it would have been discovered when Brett added the range checks.

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