Re: [evolution-patches] 59717, evolution mail crash

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 10:46 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 14:25 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 12:31 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > Another mailer crasher fix.
> > > 
> > > This is in two parts, one is low-risk but has unpleasant user side-
> > > effects, the other part is higher risk and may need more testing first
> > > but fixes the side-effects.
> > 
> > Should we move to 2.0.1 since this is fairly difficult to trigger and it
> > would be nice to have some extra testing?
> 
> I'm fine either way.  The problem is it can crash 'sometime later',
> e.g. 4 minutes after the 'check for supported types' button is
> pressed, which gives the user enough time to finish configuring their
> mail (duh this button doesn't work, i'll close it and keep going), and
> be doing something else leading to spurious bug reports.
> 
> If they mis-type something and check it, and go 'oops thats wrong,
> lets cancel and retry a new value', which isn't inconceivably
> difficult to do; then they may also have the issue.  If the check call
> was async it would also fix the issue (but leads to other
> complications anyway, so might not be a good idea).

Your call, if you feel confident enough with this patch go ahead for
2.0.0.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.