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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:40 pm
by Fred
You're wrong. If we mark them as fixed, then we have reproduced the bug and then fixed it. We add relevent unit tests when possible to avoid future 'wake up'. About the 'nobody can remember them', who cares ? They are fixed and the update of PB are free, so why keeping the old unusuful list ?
The '[Done]' keyword is here to inform than the bug is fixed until the next stable release. All [Done] topics will be moved to private fourms when released.
So you should really trust us. Why would we delete silenty bugs ? Have you ever wondered why there is still very old bugs and why there is a lot of bugs entries ? If we wouldn't care, we would have cleaned this since a while. So stop your paranoia

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:29 pm
by Psychophanta
I can not say it was deleted, i say what i know, which is that the topics dissappeared! But i ignore the reason, probably lost without your knowledge, because i had it in "favorites" and can assure them was not fixed, since there was not pointed as 'fixed'.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:32 pm
by blueznl
Psycho, go easy. If the bug was reported as 'done' but wasn't fixed, post it again with the next release.
I've seen very few occaisions where bug reports were ignored (though they may be skipped during a few betas) and I don't recall a single case where the bug was deleted.
Then again, I suffer from MLAS, so...
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:07 pm
by Fred
Psychophanta wrote:I can not say it was deleted, i say what i know, which is that the topics dissappeared! But i ignore the reason, probably lost without your knowledge, because i had it in "favorites" and can assure them was not fixed, since there was not pointed as 'fixed'.
Indeed it was deleted by us, a topic doesn't 'disappears'. Don't assure anything, as we could have fixed and deleted them quickly when we doing a bug hunt session just before a release.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:15 pm
by Psychophanta
Fred wrote:Indeed it was deleted by us, a topic doesn't 'disappears'. Don't assure anything, as we could have fixed and deleted them quickly when we doing a bug hunt session just before a release.
Ok. That arises calm then.

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:41 am
by pdwyer
Pantcho!! wrote:use teleport pro
search for it.
it will take few good hours but i bet you can scan the whole forum.
Just getting back off the topic,

I have a filter done for teleport pro to pass these forums so that you can stay within a topic and not follow profile links etc. I have a copy of the tips and tricks forum and pass tool to store it in sqlite and show it in a browser control (still VERY buggy and unfinished though).
Only problem is that unlike more expensive versions of teleport, the pro version has a 65000 link follow limit so I'd have to get other bigger forums like Coding Questions, in bits which is very time consuming and I haven't been bothered.
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:55 am
by Rook Zimbabwe
Only problem is that unlike more expensive versions of teleport, the pro version has a 65000 link follow limit so I'd have to get other bigger forums like Coding Questions, in bits which is very time consuming and I haven't been bothered.
So do you think it is possible that you could break the forum up into smaller bites... one that the program could document? Say each years posts?

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:06 am
by pdwyer
It recurses based on a start point, so if I navigate through a list of posts by say 10 pages and kick it off there I will get another 65k html files and then just copy them in. The date (to do it in years) would be based on the last post as that determins the depth it's sunk into the forum
I have a parser that is then chopping out the unneeded html and the parts that links in gfx and buttons and puts it into SQLite. This works okay but there is still more crap that my parser needs to handle. I have a table with author, subject, date, body etc (cause I REEEEEAAALLY want to search by post title

) and the viewer tool is where I was up to last time I was putting effort into this (a couple of months ago).
I want to create a web form shown locally in the web gadget, you put your search in and sends to a fake url (eg
http://pbforum?title="hello") and the gadget notification callback can catch this, process it, peel the search params out, look up sqlite and return the rows found in a web page with links to the articles which will also point to a fake URL with the DB ID and be caught by the notification callback. I can even put the 15-post-at-a-time pages back together now (or atleast link them up)
This way I can keep the original web formatting of the post for display.
That's the idea but I ran out of time when my 2nd son was born
I'll pick it up again when I get some time. I have a download of tips&tricks only at the moment (done in april), teleport pro can still catch that whole forum in one sweep and it's the main one I want.