Re: SmartEiffel shortcomings?

Wolfgang Jansen <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:59:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.smalleiffel
Organization University of Potsdam, Institute of Informatics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:

>>Have you ever compiled the examples in the tutorial/storable
>>directory? I did not expect that users must write bug reports to show
>>that tutorial examples do not compile.
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>I *do* expect that people who use beta release understand that some things 
>may not be working. That's what betas are for.
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And I do expect that developers made at least minimal tests
before releasing something, beta or not.
All the more if a new feature has been offered (as is the case with
persistence in SE 2.2+beta): it must be possible to demonstrate
the new feature's functionality.

>>Is it not your duty to check that at least the tutorials are working?
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>Of course. They will, when 2.2 is out.
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Maybe, we have different cultural background.
Maybe mine requests me to be responsible for all of my work,
even it is not yet finished.

WJ