Re: [MacPerl] OSACompile() bug in MPW perl tool too?

[jasonj@mpx.com.au (Jason Johnston)]

Matthias Neeracher wrote:
>
>>[MPW Perl crashes when being run twice with nontrivial AppleScripts]
>
>Yes, this is a long running problem. I saw the best MPW programmers of my
>generation destroyed by madness over this bug, starving hysterical naked,
>dragging themselves through 1 Infinite Loop at dawn looking for an angry fix.
>

:-) I know the feeling, except that after four sleepless nights and 10,000
reboots (well...), I was starting to conceive the thought of throwing
myself off the Sydney Harbour Bridge (it's handy, it's _very_ high, and to
my knowledge no one has ever survived a jump to face another buggy
program).

>We probably should bring this up on the MPW Developers mailing list
>(See http://www.lists.apple.com/mpw-dev.html for details). That list is
>full of current and past MPW maintainers, and their collective wisdom should
>at least be able to assess whether it is possible to fix this in either MPW
>or in a workaround in our code.
>
>Do you want to subscribe to the list, or should I bring it up?
>
>Matthias
>

Thanks for the pointer to the MPW list. I have subscribed, but still, if
you could bear it Matthias (and didn't intend an exclusive-or
interpretation), I'd prefer that you put the question: you're known on the
list, and besides you seem to know something of the history of the problem.
Feel free to quote my synopsis if it's at all useful (but it's probably old
hat by now). Hopefully this will make the shipping on Sydney Harbour safer
from plummeting programmers...

[And thanks for the great model source code: that's _really_ generous.]

I guess that can be the end of this thread for the moment until we have
something to report.

Jason Johnston
jasonj@mpx.com.au



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