Tim,
On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 11:13 PM, Tim Jenness wrote:
> Has someone filed a bug report with Sun?
I haven't filed a Sun report, because the error I found in JDK1.4.3
appeared to be caused by the old version of Xalan shipped with that JDK
-- that is, it disappeared when I changed Xalan versions, so I stopped
looking for detailed causes. I haven't filed an Apache bug in Xalan
2.5.2, because I appear to be suffering from a currently open bug.
I'm therefore supposing that Sun will in fact release its next JDK
(1.4.4 or 1.5) with a more recent version of Xalan. It occurs to me
that I could file a bug report saying that there appears to be a
problem with current Xalan, but that report would either have to be
pretty vague (``my application worked when I updated Xalan''), or else
I'd have to spend potentially quite a bit of time isolating a bug, and
I'm not sure that would be worth it for me or for Sun, since the
workaround/fix is straightforward (to simply update Xalan) and likely
to happen in any case. What do you all think? I'm perfectly
public-spirited about filing bug reports, but this one doesn't seem
worth it.
Norman
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