Hi andreas

A mistake or oversight can always happen. Sorry but 3.7 had a long 
alpha, beta, gamma phase....
so the process is one but the fact that doug was the only one with the 
big responsibility to add
items in the stream and check conflicts.

Stef

On 9 sept. 04, at 00:14, Andreas Raab wrote:

>> I'd be reluctant to add such a fix at this late stage, but if it is 
>> the
>> cause of this problem, and the DosFileDirFullName problem did not 
>> exist
>> in 3.6, it might be important enough to tack on to the 3.7 final
>> stream.  (As evidenced by two different people posting about the same
>> bug when asked to test today.)
>
> Holy bureaucracy. Something is really screwed up here. This fix is a)
> critical b) three lines long c) comes with a whole set of tests d) was
> reviewed e) was even approved ... and it took us from april (when I 
> first
> posted the fix) to september to /not/ fix it? Anyone besides me 
> thinking
> that there is something Really Wrong with the process?
>
> Anyways - Doug, *please* include the fix regardless of any late stage. 
> The
> fix is the counterpart for the changes in DosFileDir>>splitName:to: 
> (these
> logically belong together) as the tests will easily illustrate (3.6 
> didn't
> have this particular problem but it had others which were equally 
> severe).
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>