getting started (false start 1 of ?)

[David Malcolm]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:22 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:03 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:49 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> > > Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>, spake thus:
> > > 
> > > > I looked at both jEdit and Conglomerate this morning for the first time.
> > > > Initial impressions are that both are very full featured.  IMHO
> > > > Conglomerate has the edge for a few reasons:
> > > 
> > > I retried conglomerate again this morning, too.  It crashed on the very
> > > first file I tried to open.  Not ready for prime time, IMHO.
> > 
> > Agreed.   I don't get much time to hack on Conglomerate these days,
> > alas.  If you're a coder, it would be great if you could join us (see
> > http://www.conglomerate.org )
> > 
> > Please can you file bugs in bugzilla.gnome.org against Conglomerate for
> > crashes that occur.  Please try to isolate a minimal test document that
> > causes the crash, and attach that to any bugs you file; this is
> > invaluable when tracking down this kind of thing (backtraces are great
> > as well, assuming you have the debuginfo package installed)
> 
> Dave,
> 
> If you can suggest it to any of the active developers, perhaps the
> contents of the FDP CVS would be a good place to get test documents.  I

Interesting idea, it's always useful to have a good source of real-work
test cases (Conglomerate has a built-in random DocBook generator, which
is useful for stress-testing).

What I was really after was a specific bug report about a specific
crash, though.

> think we validate all of them before publication, although we use the
> DocBook/XML 4.2 DTD.  (Maybe that would be a good RFE for me to file in
> Bugzilla -- adding a 4.2 option in some reasonable fashion.)

Yes, please file this.


Dave