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From: Dave Mason <dmason@scs.Ryerson.CA>
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Subject: Re: Reproducing crashes and other bugs.
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Date: 	Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:18:22 -0500

Martin Buchholz writes:
> We've been much better lately at finding reproducible crashes.  An
> excellent way of doing bug tracking is to have reproducibility.
> 
> So I've created reproduce-bugs.el, which should find its way into an
> XEmacs distribution soon.

This is a Good Thing (TM)!  Simple idea, but *significant* impact.

And, of course the bugs should be moved to a regression-test.el file
when fixed, and all those tests should be run against any future
release.

This kind of thing could lead to a *very* stable Xemacs in the near
future.

../Dave

