Owen Brazell Sep 2, 2003
>Hi folks,Owen Brazell
>
> I've been getting some reports of crashes with the latest update
>to Guide 8. They happen when you go to a one-degree or smaller field
>of view, and I've tracked it down to a bug in the plotting of orbital
>binaries. (I somewhat arbitrarily decided that Guide wouldn't attempt
>to split orbital binaries unless you zoomed past that one-degree limit.)
>Larry Wood, this _probably_ is where your crashes are coming from.
>(Dunno about the aperture clicking problem... that's another e-mail.)
>
> In much of the sky, there's actually no problem due to this,
>because no orbital binaries happen to be in the field of view. The
>bug also doesn't necessarily happen to everyone all the time. (It's
>been lurking in the code ever since orbital binaries were added in
>April 2002; it may be the source of some of the "inexplicable"
>crashes reported from time to time.) If Guide crashes when you go
>from level 7 to level 8, you've probably found the bug.
>
> If this has happened to you, visit
>
>http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
>
> and download the "in testing" update. BE WARNED that I'd not be
>posting this update were it not for this bug. There are a couple of
>new features listed at the above URL, and they've not really been
>tested as thoroughly as I'd like. (I _think_ they're stable... but
>I've been proven wrong in such beliefs before. Pretty often, too.)
>While the "orbital binary" bug has been quashed, new and interesting
>bugs may have erupted. If Guide isn't giving you trouble, and you
>don't have an urgent need to try out the features listed at 'new.htm',
>I'd recommend you hold off on getting this update.
>
> With any luck, such bugs will tumble out over the next few days,
>I'll fix them, and then make an "official" stable update post.
>
>-- Bill
>
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