[Imap-uw] Re: MIX Index Folder Corruption

[Frode Nordahl]

On 25. sep. 2006, at 10.38, Ian Eiloart wrote:

>
>
> --On 23 September 2006 09:38:53 -0700 Mark Crispin  
> <mrc at cac.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> I learned about this problem soon after people in Europe tried  
>> imap-2006.
>> Unfortunately, it seems that nobody in the Eastern Hemisphere  
>> tried any
>> of the imap-2006 development snapshots, otherwise this problem  
>> would have
>> been caught prior to then.
>>
>>   [Obligatory beg: PLEASE try the development snapshots!!]
>>
>
> Alternatively, the test suite (is there one?) should check that a  
> message from each time zone can be read. You won't get a tester in  
> every time zone.

No test suite can ever cover all those corner cases that a program  
will be subject to. They will probably help weeding out the  
relatively obvious problems, but "new" problems like this one will  
not be avoided the first time they occur. Having a test for it in  
place will of course avoid the same bug appearing in a future release.

I think it would really help to announce and release a beta or  
release candidate some time before the release, as this most  
certainly will make more people test and hopefully find more of these  
problems before the final release hits the press.

--
Frode Nordahl