[Koha-devel] Major surprise - "automatic" upgrade

[MJ Ray]

> huh?, what is 'not nice' about describing a test, that proves a bug
> is impossible?

It doesn't "prove" it's impossible.  It just shows you're not seeing
that bug and suggests a way to confirm/reject the bug elsewhere.
Proofs are sort of an interesting concept in programming and are
almost never used.

This exchange was a bad reminder of the time there was some strange
MacOS X perl maths bug which caused a particular
added-by-request-of-a-now-gone-koha-developer HTML::Template feature
to fail.  That developer insisted the bug was impossible, that his new
template feature was brilliant and that it should be used on almost
every Koha page.  He was generally quite scathing about how stupid we
were for suggesting such a bug existed, especially in private.  It
wasn't nice, or necessary.

I agree that automatic upgrade bug seems unlikely, but impossible? Nope.

Regards,
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