Purebasic Bug Fix Philosophy and Practice

[MGD]

From Fred, re: the latest beta release: PureBasic 6.21 beta 4 is out ! - Page 3 - PureBasic Forums - English

Basically we never silently delete reported bugs (by respect for the time spent to do the report) so some old one can still be around if:

• it’s a niche bug (ie: having a small impact)
• it takes too much time to fix
• we don’t know how to fix it

A few years ago, I decided as a personal challenge to get the reported bugs count below 100 for the compiler, all platforms included. It took time but I guess it should be the case once 6.21 final lands !

Well, now that’s different.

[npalardy]

@MGD

A few years ago, I decided as a personal challenge to get the reported bugs count below 100 for the compiler

Whoa !
Publicly visible ones Xojo is > 3x that #

[jalih]

Currently bug tracker for 8th lists just 10 open bugs and almost half of them are actually feature requests.

[MGD]

@npalardy

Xojo is > 3x that #

Do you mean more like 23x? Looking at the issue tracker, just for issues labeled as “Bug,” there are 2285 as of today.

[npalardy]

I specifically meant just bugs labelled COMPILER

[MGD]

Ah, right. Still not pretty.

[ivan]

@jalih

Currently bug tracker for 8th lists just 10 open bugs and almost half of them are actually feature requests.

If the general discussion of the forum has like 3 active users, the number of open bugs sounds more like a lack of users/interest instead of quality.

[jalih]

@ivan

If the general discussion of the forum has like 3 active users, the number of open bugs sounds more like a lack of users/interest instead of quality.

8th is very actively developed with active bug tracker. There is a new release about once a month, usually with almost all the reported bugs fixed and some nice features added. Last month Nuklear graphics backend got updated from SDL2 to SDL3.