Re: [MacPerl] Mercutio MDEF bug

[Tim Dierks <timd@consensus.com>]

At 6:04 PM +0100 12/9/97, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>Charles Albrecht <albrecht@gate.net> writes:
>>Ric Ford reports today on a bug in the Mercutio MDEF that has been
>>tracked down, <http://www.macintouch.com/mguard.html>.
>>
>>The author of one of the fixes identifies MacPerl as one of the
>>applications using Mercutio.
>
>Yes, MacPerl uses Mercutio. Ramon Felciano, the developer of Mercutio, has
>already informed developers and is planning to issue a corrected version
>of Mercutio RSN. I expect to use that version in the next release of MacPerl.
>
>Until then, if you are experiencing crashes when using menus in MacPerl (I
>don't,
>but I tend to use keyboard equivalents much more frequently than menus),
>it should
>be safe to apply either of the patches on that page to your copy of
>MacPerl (Doing
>so will, however, void your warranty :-)

The bug only occurs when Mercutio is used for a pop-up; in all other cases,
this shouldn't be a problem. I don't remember any pop-ups in MacPerl, so
it's unlikely to have this bug.

 - Tim

Tim Dierks - timd@consensus.com - www.consensus.com
  Director of Engineering - Consensus Development
  Developer of SSL Plus: SSL 3.0 Integration Suite



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