[Metakit] Regression in MK C++, Mk4py, and Mk4tcl
Jean-Claude Wippler
jcw at equi4.com
Fri Feb 18 10:52:18 CET 2005
FYI, the following change to MK appears to be faulty:
2004-09-23 Fix c4_BytesRef::Modify bytes insertion
It shows up in MK's regression test b26, which fails. There is an
explanation for why this hasn't been caught before, which I won't go
into. It's most unfortunate.
Thanks to Pat Thoyts for reporting the details of this.
If you rely on insertion/mods/deletes of partial data in fields, you
may want to revert to an earlier CVS checkout, i.e. "cvs ... -D
2004-09-21 ...".
Several Tclkit builds are affected, probably 8.4.[7-9] and 8.5a2 -
these have all been built after that time, and may or may not have used
cvs HEAD then. If you are worried about potential datafile corruption
from this, revert to Tclkit 8.4.6 to avoid it.
I've not yet researched what exactly happens, but wanted to get this
notice out asap.
-jcw
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