> I was interested in what most customers would choose. Given the choice > between: 1) more features, 2) quicker delivery, or 3) fixing an assertion > failure that only occurs under Gremlins, I maintain that #3 would not be > most folks' choice. :)
3) should never happen if you know what your dealing with in the first place *g* > > six months later, a new device comes out - and, woah.. the application > > they paid good money for no longer works? should the re-contact you to > > fix these problems? surely, thats a good business model for you isn't it? > > You're trying to predict the future, and that's not possible. no, its not prediction. i have been programming palmos for quite some time now, and, i have seen the migration from Palm Pro -> III -> IIIc -> m515 -> Tungsten|T. always been some quirks between versions, and, to be honest with you, palm started creating better tools as of palmos 3.5+ :) > > > Have you ever heard of a guy spending a week fixing an obscure bug? > > > Has that guy ever been you? :) > > > > yes. and, yes. :) > > I maintain that there are situations where that bug should not be fixed. a bug is a bug :) but, if microsoft fixed all their bugs - they wouldn't be where they are now - but, you and i are not microsoft :) they can get away with some critical bugs (ps: try reading one of the EULA's :)) > > it doesn't take long for you to fix such a small obscure bug. i do it > > daily for all my other developers (yes, i am mr. bug fixer in my full > > time work) :P > > Better to teach them to fix their own bugs, it seems to me. they are newbies. theyt get stuck, i help them, they learn. :) but, i surely dont let them ignore any issues. if they come across issues, i explain why they occur, and, they normally have enough info/passion to go and fix it themselves. > > > In any case, I'm still looking for answer to my question about the > > > severity of the report. Is "Invalid insertion point" a real bug that > > > would affect my app's performance in the real world? > > > > well, it probably isn't *that* severe. > > That doesn't answer the question, which indicates to me that the answer > isn't known. i have dynamic forms/code where i am dealing with text fields a lot, however, i have never seen that gremlins message. guess that makes me a bad coder hey? cause i dont know the answer to your problem? --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO - CTO +46 70 656 1143 Mobile Wizardry http://www.mobilewizardry.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
