Re: Bug notices?

From article <1993Oct8.190739.6270@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, by aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt): > In my continuing quest to find responsive support from vendors :-) I'd > like to propose that Informix post bug lists to this group. E.g., I > just added another one to my trophy wall (#20562, wherein a 'return' > in 4gl report function causes the _next_ call to be silently skipped, > dropping that next row from the table- beware). As a developer, I'd > like a weekly summary of bugs found (& workarounds known). Informixlink > is a tad too costly for my tastes, and even so, I suspect there's a large > segment of users who read this group and have no use for informixlink... > Any thoughts? Hear, hear! This is a major peeve of mine, this wasting time to rediscover already known bugs. A variant on this suggestion would be to have the buglist available via anonymous ftp at a well-known site, organized by product and version, and updated periodically. Andrew Shaw AT&T Bell Labs andrew.shaw@att.com