[Info-vax] OpenSSL 1.1.0 released

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-09-07 11:59:01 +0000, Richard Levitte said:

> Den tisdag 6 september 2016 kl. 19:52:29 UTC+2 skrev Stephen Hoffman:
>> On 2016-09-06 15:38:46 +0000, Craig A. Berry said:
>> 
>>> Quirky, but documented.  There is a little more info in the v8.4
>>> on-line help under PRODUCT PACKAGE/MATERIAL than there was in in the
>>> 7.3-2 era docs I cited earlier:
>> 
>> Ayup, quite true.
>> 
>> More folks have become disabused to the "fix it in documentation" notion.
> 
> Sounds like a feature (see meaning number 6 in 
> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/feature.html) ;-)

I'd infer either short-sighted or schedule-constrained development 
work, here.    That being polite phrasing for what amounts to a short 
cut or software expediency.

These sorts of cases — the lack of schedule and the willingness to 
refractor or to rework or to iterate, even the ability to recognize 
that there are design or implementation problems — are unfortunately 
common in enterprise software and hardware.   Some can be subtle.  Ever 
notice the I/O ports on some server don't have any semblance of 
organization on the I/O bulkhead, or the connectors themselves are 
oriented such that you can't easily get at the latches or the labels, 
for instance?     The very different consoles on Integrity Itanium 
(iLO, BMC, EFI)?   Software itself either gets rethought and refactored 
for new needs and new users and uses, or the accretion simply hardens 
into brittleness and cryptic arcana.   But I digress.

IMO, this is a bug in PCSI.  This is a very nicely documented bug, but 
it's still a bug.   Barring extenuating circumstances, good software 
should not allow users to trigger surprise corruptions.


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