Re: [Exim-dev] Bugzilla

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Tabor J. Wells wrote:

> > The default OS's, minus Windows and MacOS variants are: "All",
> > "MacOS X", "Linux", "BSDI", "FreeBSD", "NetBSD", "OpenBSD", "AIX",
> > "BeOS", "HP-UX", "IRIX", "Neutrino", "OpenVMS", "OS/2", "OSF/1",
> > "Solaris", "SunOS", and "other". There are some that I think should
> > be removed (Neutrino?!) and I imagine some that are missing. Maybe
> > Linux needs splitting up a bit?
>
> And perhaps some versioning of the OSes too? There are plenty of times
> where a problem has affected one version but not another (for example
> the various build problems between MacOS X 10.2 vs 10.3).

> Although that might get kind of clunky quickly... It'd be nice to find
> a way to make sure bug openers are clear on the specific release of
> their OS.
>
> Is it possible to have a release/version subfield for the OS?

Not really, unless we added the feature ourselves. I think if the actual
OS version is important then it will be mentioned in the description of
the bug, which will generally be sufficient. If we find that two
versions of an OS are sufficiently different to be a problem, then we
can split the category then.

Regards,
John