[Tinyos-devel] nesC error

[David Gay]

On 10/19/06, Joe Polastre <joe at polastre.com> wrote:
> Perhaps nesC should print out enough details when this happens that we
> don't need expert users to create bug reports?

That would be the full source code input (+ environment details). Two
obvious issues:
- a noticeable amount of engineering to preserve this so that it's
available at crash time in a usable format
- people might not want to just send out their source code to some
random "bug report" mailing list...

There are intermediate steps states that can be helpful (e.g.,
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/), but that's more engineering.

I will note that most other language (and other...) projects (e.g.,
gcc, perl) manage to survive the idea of having users submit usable
bug reports. It's not exactly a harder task than programming.

David Gay