[Soot-list] Is there anybody taking care of Soot bug reports?

[Chris Pickett]

Hi Sunny,

I'd like to point out that generally bug-fixing works as follows:

1) file bugs when you encounter them
2) wait until somebody has had the time to fix them
3a) fix arrives, hurray
3b) no fix, you've waited too long and it's blocking your research, so 
you dive into the Soot source code and try to fix it yourself, then you 
contribute a patch back for others to use.

In fact, speaking from my own experience, I'd say that for many open 
source projects 3b can be much less painful than relying on others. 
It's also much more fun!  Anyway, thank-you for taking the time to 
document your problems.

Cheers,
Chris

Sunny wrote:
> Hello Eric,
>  
> Thanks! Yes, just like myself, I understand that you guys must be very 
> busy too :-). Right now I am working on a project regarding dynamic 
> program analysis, based on the Soot's Eclipse plugin.
>  
> I think Soot is a powerful tool which can do many things that I could 
> not do using AspectJ, though a bit lower-level. I hope the Soot project 
> keeps active and becomes more robust since we'll probably rely on it in 
> our later work.
>  
> Did you ask which bugs I prefer to be fixed first? If yes, I'd say bug 
> 39. Actually I have a few more to report, one of which is about the 
> Application Mode Options. These options take effect only when the -app 
> is specified, right?
>  
> Thank you for your time!
>  
> Sunny
> 
>  
> On 6/2/06, *Eric Bodden* <eric.bodden at mail.mcgill.ca 
> <mailto:eric.bodden at mail.mcgill.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello.
> 
>     Sorry for not replying earlier. As you can imagine we are all busy
>     people and Soot has become HUGE and support for it eats up a lot of
>     resources. Nevertheless, I will have a look at it.
> 
>     Do you have any preferences for particular bugs?
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Eric
> 
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>      > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:52 PM
>      > To: soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca <mailto:soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca>
>      > Subject: [Soot-list] Is there anybody taking care of Soot bug
>     reports?
>      >
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > Is there anybody maintaining soot and taking care of bug reports at
>      > this time? I filed a couple of bug reports days ago but got no
>      > response. I think It would be great if possible bugs are
>     confirmed and
>      > the time line to fix them are indicated. Thank you very much for
>     your
>      > attention!
>      >
>      > Sunny
> 
> 
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