Jesse Keating writes: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:16:06 +0100 > Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Bugs found when chasing down portability problems are often real > > bugs, not just non-portable code. For that reason, 100% of our > > users benefit from portable code, not just the 1% who use minor > > architectures. It's in everyone's interest that Fedora code is > > real C (or C++). > > But when that bug doesn't effect the majority of our user base, How do you know until you have analyzed the bug? Every bug revealed during portability testing is potentially a real bug on the primary arch. > do those users really care? Should the? Yes. Do they? No. "It > works for me and my major arch, why should I care that it broke on > your silly arch?" You are painfully close to assuming that our users are fools; I don't believe it. Andrew. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, UK Registered in England and Wales No. 3798903 -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
