[Axiom-developer] RE: address@hidden

[Page, Bill]

On Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:45 AM Tim Daly wrote:
> 
> Nice job on address@hidden This is a win.
>

Not really my job, this is a function already built-in to
ZWiki. All that is required is to set it up as per
instructions. (Ok, that did require just a little reading
between the lines. :)

> I think we need to write a shell script for the axiom
> system which will automatically collect the version,
> timestamp, and opsys information and pre-populate a
> mail message.
> 
> This will make it possible for a user to send a bug
> report with a minimum of fuss.

Well I am not so sure about a shell script to pre-populate
a mail message. Maybe it would be ok for some linux users,
but the concept is not very portable. There is a wide
variety of mail clients out there and then there is Windows
too. I think it would be hard to write a script that works
for everyone. And there is a lot of variability in email
server programs as well plus email security/anti-spam
issues to worry about.

How about a script to pre-populating a web form? The action
of the web form could be to submit a report directly to
IssueTracker. I hope that wouldn't be viewed as too much of
an assumption by users who normally use only email.

> 
> In fact, if we do it right we might be able to cause
> GCL to start tracing a bug as soon as it throws an
> error. If we do that then the user has mostly automated
> bug reporting.
> 

That reminds me to ask: What is the origin of the message

   protected-symbol-warn called with (NIL)

that appears on every error output from Axiom? This looks
like some kind of lisp error to me. Is this supposed to be
there?

Regards,
Bill Page.