AMDG Robert Ramey wrote:
This would be a really bad idea in my opinion - for more than one reason.
Very often, what users characterise as "bugs" are really one of the following:
* error in user's code * misunderstanding of error / warning messages * result of choices made by the developers in the course of making tradeoffs between legimate optoins. * intentional features of the design which are not appreciated by the "fixer"
In summary, many of the proposed "bug fixes" are not bugs but something else and the proponent doesn't understand this.
almost all changes have or can have unexpected side effects in places totally unexpected by the naive maintainer.
As someone who does periodically apply fixes to unmaintained libraries, I completely agree with this statement. Writing a good patch is generally not a trivial task. I think I'm pretty meticulous and I still make mistakes sometimes. In Christ, Steven Watanabe