From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 18:53:34 GMT
Hi,
I *really* don't want to step on anyone's toes here, especially
Martin's, whom I told to check this in. This is some tremendous work and
I certainly don't want to just throw away weeks' worth of hard work. I
*really* love the incremental loader...
when it is fully working, that is. My current problem is that after the
new incremental loader, I and others have experienced a great deal of
problems that we hadn't before then, including but not limited to:
1) Unexplained crashes on document load
2) Unexplained hanging on document load
3) Unexplained crashes on zooming
4) Unexplained exiting if closing 1 window while another doc is opening
5) Inability to print from the command line any more, mostly due to a
lack of an XAP_Frame to call nullUpdate() on while loading the doc.
The worst part of #s 1-4 is that they are non-deterministic, though not
hard to reproduce for us. "If at first you don't fail, try, try again."
If these sorts of behavior aren't reproducible for you, then it's all
the more frustrating.
So I'm kindly asking that these changes be backed out for 1.0, if
possible, and maintained in a separate patch or branch to be worked on
and included at some later date. My reasoning is fairly simple - I'd
rather have 1 known bug that is annoying yet tolerable (non-incremental
loads) rather than a plethora of unknown bugs that basically render the
product useless for me and others. I'd rather let this bug get pushed to
post 1.0 than to have all of these new ones open so late in the
development cycle, especially since these are potentially harder to
identify and fix too.
Alternately, a "magic bullet" bug-fix would also be appreciated. Martin,
I would very much like to hear your opinion on this. We could delay 1.0
until the incremental loader is working 100%, but I personally would
rather not do that.
Cheers,
Dom
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