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My experience

My experience

Posted Mar 18, 2010 20:27 UTC (Thu) by ikm (guest, #493)
In reply to: My experience by sytoka
Parent article: Applications and bundled libraries

Yes, that's true -- Mozilla only cares about the arches which are in actual widespread use. The fact that Debian provides support for others is great. But I don't use those (nor I know anyone who does) and I have merely provided my own experience (see the subject).

On a side note, I'd like to warn you that the fact of mere availability of a package in Debian for some rare arch doesn't really mean that the program in that package would actually work on that arch just fine. I am e.g. an author of an app which is present in Debian, and mind you, despite the fact that it currently just doesn't work on any big-endian architectures correctly, in Debian it is present for all arches, including the big-endian ones. Of course, there are no bugreports pertaining to those problems -- no one has ever actually tried to use those packages there.


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Test suites can help

Posted Mar 20, 2010 1:00 UTC (Sat) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]

Does your program have a test suite? Even basic tests can do a lot of good, both in making non-functional functionality more obvious and spurring people to fix it. You might be interested in Mike Hommey’s recent work on Mozilla: before and after.


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