[Discussion] WPS

[Steven Levine]

In <44DBC234.70201 at islandnet.com>, on 08/10/06
   at 04:33 PM, Arthur Menu <menu at islandnet.com> said:

>I often get freezes after I open several web pages in certain sites in 
>the Seamonkey browser and have never understood why, so your comment 
>about the WPS running out of memory may provide an answer.

Seamonkey freezes are unlikely to related to any WPS issues you might
have.  In general, the Mozilla apps use memory until they run out.  The
documented workaround is to shut down Mozilla when the memory meter shows
that the system is running low on memory.  In my case, this is usually
every third day or so.

>It's a darn shame that after all these years no one has fixed the WPS.

What do you mean?  XWorkplace and other WPS enhancers correct many known
WPS problems and add new features.  The available WPS maintenance tools
will keep the WPS healthy and responsive.

If you mean why hasn't IBM added feature X to the WPS, the answer is
obvious.

Back in 1996 or so, IBM told us they were putting OS/2 in maintenance
mode.  IBM's definition of maintenance mode means that only reported
defects from customers with support entitlements get fixed.  This is all
documented in the license agreement you got with your copy of OS/2 Warp. 
You might want to review it.

My experience is that when a defect is reported and the customer provides
a repeatable test case, IBM is still capable of and willing to supply
fixes.  In the last couple of months, eCS customers have gotten several
private code fixes by exactly this process.  One was even a WPS defect.

Note that not all fixes are code fixes.  Some are just descriptions of
alternate methods to achive the desired result.

>Is this something that only IBM can do, or could Serenity Systems do it, 
>or even some very clever programmer such as yourself?

Clever has nothing to do with it.  Any reasonably capable developer could
reimplement the WPS.  However, who's going to pay for this?  It's not a
small job.

Regards,

Steven

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