phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 09/15/2018 09:54 AM, tide wrote:
> On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 19:17:58 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 19:06:14 UTC, Josphe Brigmo wrote:
>>> For very long file names it is broke and every command fails. These 
>>> paths are not all that long but over 256 limit. (For windows)
>>
>> Please file a bug report with reproducible examples if you believe 
>> it's a bug.
> 
> I feel people need to stop saying this. It feels like people are just 
> being told to say this if there is a bug. There is a larger issue, 
> Bugzilla doesn't and isn't working. Someone will probably throw up some 
> stats about how many bugs are filed and how many are resolved. Those 
> exist because someone working on Dlang comes across a bug that affects 
> them, creates a patch for it first, then goes and creates a bugzilla 
> entry and marks it resolved. Issues are rarely resolved by anyone other 
> than the person that created the bug report to begin with. Or issues 
> created by a team member is resolved by another team member.

While that's admittedly all-too-true, filing a proper bug report is 
still an essential step.

Like you, I'm all for bringing attention to important issues on the 
newsgroup. However, it is CRUCIAL for this to be IN ADDITION to filing a 
bug report, and NOT INSTEAD of filing a bug report.