Re: break up functions

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ingo Krabbe wrote on Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:41:14AM CEST:
> Now, it seems though, I found my way into reading that stuff.  If we are
> talking about "months", and it will be ok, to have there one or two
> months in between where I couldn't fix something, I would actually be
> able to take care about libtool development and "fix regressions".  When
> pointed to such bugs, that should be quite easy.

That's one part of the problem: the initial bug analysis (until we know
what caused the bug) is what often takes most of the time.

> But still, what bothers me more, is what do you think about the
> library/wrapper issue?

It looks like a bug.

> Do you see this problem, as I do, to be critical?

Not sure what you mean here.  FWIW, I haven't encountered the bug in
practice.  Generally speaking, only regressions and bugs that are widely
observed are critical enough to hold up a release, and the latter only
if we have a patch, or can produce one in a reasonable amount of time.

Other than that, we sure would like to fix all bugs, but there is only a
finite amount of resources.

> And what should be the steps to get it corrected?

First step should be a simple and reliable reproducer, ideally in the
form of a testsuite patch.

Please send followup messages regarding the bug you reported to that
thread, not this one.

Thanks,
Ralf