[fpc-devel] About bug 4356 and fpc bugtracker

[Florian Klaempfl]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Marc Weustink wrote:
> 
>> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Luiz Américo wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I want just comment that any directory ending with pathdelim will
>>>> return
>>>> false. See below:
>>>>
>>>> DirectoryExists('C:\Windows'): TRUE
>>>> DirectoryExists('C:\Windows\'): FALSE
>>>>
>>>> BTW: The fpc bugtracker is quite minimal, not allowing things like
>>>> adding
>>>> comments, followups etc.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For most bugs, there is no need for such things.
>>
>>
>> For the bugs I submitted to fpc I had 2 or 3 times afterwards the need
>> to add comments or to correct my report.
>>
>>>> It seems there's a plan to rewrite the bugtracker, am i correct?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>
>>>> If no or if will take much time maybe a solution would be addopting one
>>>> dedicated bugtracker system like lazarus/mantis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well... It's another additional external system to maintain. I'll
>>> rewrite the bugtracker, and at that time, I'll add some features.
>>
>>
>> That is why the Lazarus team switched to mantis. Rewriting the
>> bugtracker would take also time. And it has also to be maintained.
>> Further rewriting wouldn't give all options we have with mantis now.
>>
>> Setting it up consist merely of having a MySQL db and running the
>> mantis admin script from your webbrowser.
> 
> 
> Maybe, but none of the bug systems which I checked (bugzilla/mantis/others)
> really satisfy.

Have a look at trac:
http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/

> 
> I am against a system that requires you to make a login to be able to
> submit/manipulate bugs. I myself am put off by that, so I assume other
> people will react the same. 

Agreed.

> I think most of these systems are leaning
> towards bloatware. The FPC bugtracker is very simple, just a single
> table. I want to add one more table for some follow-up remarks, but
> that is it. KISS is the principle...

Yes, but comments are something really nice :)