[antlr-interest] Serious Bug when using BitSetgeneration

[Akhilesh Mritunjai]

Geir

I've been using ANTLR a bit longer than you, and my
perception is different.

If you're a developer with any significant experience
I'd expect you to know the basics of QA process.

While logging a bug one is supposed to give
description of the problem with a test case in which
bug is at least sometimes reproducible.

This has been iterated again and again, many people
think it is an interesting and priority bug, *if* it
infact exists. So far you have not provided any inputs
to demonstrate it is there!

Understand that its hard to look for a something if
you dont even know how it looks like or if its infact
there.

Oh, and taking people who work for nothing and provide
a tool of this quality, for granted, *is NOT polite*.
If you can't invest time to come up with a testcase
how do you expect people to spend their time hunting
down something that may or may not be there just
because someone sent a feedback 'hey I think its
there!'


- Akhilesh

--- Geir Ove Skjaervik <geiroves at online.no> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Are we supposed to take this kind of feedback
> seriously? You may make
> fun of other peoples problems, but does this kind of
> feedback belong
> here?
> 
> You clearly do not understand the nature of the
> problem, or you would
> not have replied the way you do; and when you do not
> udnerstand, why
> don't you refreain from replying?
> 
> a) Switching to 3.x is NOT an option after having
> written about 5000
> lines of Parser and Tree Parser code
> 
> b) If it is a limitation, ANTLR should warn you
> about that. 
> 
> c) The workaround means avoiding BitSets alltogehter
> for ** everyone **.
> As long as we (programmers and the ANTLR developemnt
> team) does NOT
> understand the nature of the problem, then we do NOT
> know when this bug
> strikes!
> 
> d) Avoiding BitSets all the time means two things: 
>    i) Performance takes a big hit
>    ii) Why are they there if all they can do is pose
> a BIG problem in
> unknown situations
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Geir Ove
> 
> 
> Geir Ove
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org
> [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf
> Of Jim Idle
> Sent: 18. november 2005 04:24
> To: ANTLR Interest
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Serious Bug when using
> BitSetgeneration
> 
> 
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org on behalf of
> Geir Ove Skjaervik
> 
> 
> Jim Idle wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> > Just one more comment on this Bug. It is **
> clearly ** a bug, since 
> > ANTLR does work correctly when BitSets are NOT
> used.
> 
> Well, it could be just a limitation, perhaps catered
> for with a few
> tweaks, or perhaps better addressed with efforts in
> the Antlr 3 space.
> 
> >I find it strange
> > that this Bug  seems to be passed in almost
> silence: I would think it 
> >to  be rather serious to have a "sleeping" bug that
> may come and bite 
> >you  any time you encounter the right conditions.
> 
> > Terrence asked me to try to produce a small
> grammar example to try to 
> > reproduce the problem. I will as soon as time on
> my project permits 
> > it.
> 
> Hmmm - I thought you said it was a serious bug?
> Can't be THAT serious
> can it? ;-) 
> 
> > BUT I would think it is equally IMPORTANT for the
> ANTLR team to try to
> 
> > hunt down this ** serious ** bug. It is nice that
> ANTLR 3.0 is under 
> > development, but we sure need a strong ** core **
> technology that 
> > won't fail.
> 
> Well, the last time I was there I noticed that beer
> and pizza were
> significantly more expensive in San Francsico than
> most other parts of
> the world except Geneva. I am sure that donating a
> few vouchers for same
> would make this bug very much more important.
> Remember that it is free
> (for you anyway) and we should be careful to give
> out a bit of respect
> for people's time and efforts given freely :-).
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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