phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 19:33:00 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> 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.

Correct. There's no point in having a lengthy discussion on the 
topic without a bug report because it'll just waste their time 
and then they'll complain that their bug is being ignored. Unless 
there is a change in the operation of this project, all bugs 
reported in the forum need to be addressed by telling them to 
file a bug report.