Re: netatalk 2.1

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Nov 1, 12:02 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2010 04:52 PM, A2Aviator wrote:
>
> > I wish there were something with any of that A2 support that was used
> > on classic Macs, that way they could be called on the carpet for
> > breaking functionality instead of maintaining a proper working package.
>
> That would be helpful.  It's not that they try to break things, just that they
> do not consider A2 users to be of enough importance to actually test code
> changes for regression.  The AFP "short name" support (ProDOS 8) was always a
> poor cousin, but at least the patch was accepted when I sent it in - 12 years ago.
>
> Whatever is broken this time is probably simple, but I suspect that fixing it
> will involve the server keeping track of the type of client and using
> different logic for maintaining file date depending on whether it's
> "conventional" or "short name".  That may or may not be so simple, depending
> upon the data structures available.

How much work would it be to develop and contribute a small test
harness that validated the behaviour of Apple II specific
functionality ?

It's almost certainly expecting too much for the maintainers to have
setup and working Apple II networks, but a harness that automates an
Apple II-alike client would go a long way towards helping this out.

Perhaps it'd start a trend, and a comprehensive test framework will
end up part of the code, facilitating refactoring and future
development

Matt