You can never go down the drain...

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <slrn8t81tk.iqh.ssthapa at localhost.localdomain>,
Suchandra Thapa <s-thapa at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>Alex <cut_me_out at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>I wasn't snickering.  I just think that asking for a workaround to a bug
>>for which a patch exists is silly.
>
>    But the thing is you aren't always able to patch the software. E.g. the
>software is on a client's machine, you can't change to a newer version w/o
>testing for breakage, etc.  

. . . or the newer version is, in fact, broken.  Or you have a size 
limit on your software that prevents you from including a new version
of Python.

I've been suffering through programming in JavaScript.  Even if we find
a bug in Mozilla we can fix, we have to work around it --- we can't
distribute a new version of Mozilla to everybody who uses our
software.
-- 
<kragen at pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker     <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves
possess.
                -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"]