Chandler 0.3 Release Known Major Bugs

Not mentioned

These few bugs were found since the 0.3 release:

• If there is an error on one of the built-in RSS feeds, ZaoBao can fail to load any of the feeds. (Bug #1343)
• The About ZaoBao page says that there are seven feeds, but there are actually only six.
• Mark Pilgrim's Ultra-liberal RSS parser is now called the "the Feed Parser".
• The debug menu was removed, and with it, any way of starting PyCrust.
• If you are using an even slightly non-standard browser on Linux, you can get an error. (Bug #1348)

There's also a really old bug that is so old I forgot to mention it in the 0.3 release notes:

• You can't set the locale in Mac OS or Linux (Bug #251)

Known

These bugs were known as of the time of the 0.3 release.

• There are a few bugs in 0.3 related to hangs. These might all be different manifestations of the same bug:
  • Quitting on the Mac is problematic. You might need to force-quit. (Bug #1278)
  • Chandler can hang if you quit very quickly after you launch Chandler. (Bug #1296)
  • Clicking wildly right after startup can cause a crash. (Bug #1297)

Less serious errors include:

• If you click on the sidebar, you can get an error. (Bug #1290)
• Running Check Repository can show some errors. (Bug #1311)
• You can't click on the Back button to take you all the way back to the starting view. (Bug #1275)
• Clicking on some links causes an error. (Bug #1280)
• You can't click on a column header to sort the column by that header. (Bug #1230)
• The unit test TestText:testAppend fails for release versions of Chandler (but not debug versions). (Bug #1169)
• A clean build of libxml2 can fail. (Bug #1116)

Windows-specific problems

• None.

Mac OS X-specific problems

• In OS X, some of the buttons in the Demo are ugly. (Bug #1213)
• On startup under OS X, you can sometimes get side-by-side windows. (Bug #1288)
• On Mac OS, Chandler takes a lot of processing power, even when doing nothing. (Bug #1279)
• Locale can't be set on Mac and Linux (#251)
• If you switch from one sidebar item to another, you might see some flashing under Mas OS. (Bug #1212)
• The splitter bar and the column-header width are not always synched. (Bug #1323)
• The popup menu at the bottom of the Controls pane of the Demo view is empty. (Bug #1237)

Linux-specific problems

• The Linux version requires GLIBC 2.3.2, which does not come with Red Hat 8. (Bug #1156)
• Under Linux, there can be poor refresh of Chandler windows that are obscured by other windows. (Bug #1273)
• Locale can't be set on Mac and Linux (Bug #251)
• Unit tests fail on Linux when DISPLAY isn't set to an X server. (Bug #1117)

-- DuckySherwood - 20 Feb 2004