Re: [ Pozilla #2 ] galeon R 0.11.0

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Fatih Demir wrote:

> > > Wrong, if you do now the pozilla.sh --help options and do read the man-page
> > >  you see that it's constructed _for_ automated operation. It's behalf of the
> > >   user if he uses it or not, but I don't think that this is broken behaviour..
> > you are mistaking a program/script made for personal use where you know
> > all thats going to happen and therefore dont give it any options even on
> > its first run, with a program/script made for general use by many
> > people.
>
> Maybe it's my fault to get a good and useful script into CVS to let other
>  people get the "good sides" of pozilla.sh -- my fault, open source is
> hell, not?! Did get my sarcasm now?
>
> > making reading the manual a prior requrement insted of forcing it on
> > first use is a bad decision to make

Personally I'd support this view that the default behaviour (no argument
added) of programs shouldn't be harmful if it's meant for public use or
announced to public. This is my own experience, not necessarily for
reference; but it indicates why I support that opinion.

When pozilla.sh is just announced in gnome-i18n list, I tried to grab it.
However no doc is available (somehow the manpage is missing), so decided
to look at the script to see what it does. After browsing the first half,
I think that it gets the statistics of all .po files, so decided to give
it a try.

However it failed to run, so I tried to debug it, only to find out that it
sends email to others automatically. It scares me out of hell......
luckily it failed and didn't send email.

Abel