On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 13:10, Tim Peters wrote: > [Aahz] > > ... > > (Back when I knew less about Unix than I do now, I was two weeks into a > > new job, dealing with a customer who was complaining about being unable > > to install the latest release of our software. I tracked it down to a > > syntax error in the install shell script -- proving that *NOBODY* from > > QA had bothered to do an actual test install with the released CD.) > > In my Cray Research days, releases were shipped on magnetic tape. A day > after one major release, customers started to report that the tapes they got > were blank -- the tape unit write head was in fact utterly dead, but nobody > had bothered to even trying reading the release media, let alone install > from it. > > PythonLabs has also shipped damaged tarballs. The only thing we haven't > done is ship an empty Windows installer <wink>. Myself, I'll never admit anything in public. --david
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