[imp] Help with attachments

[Roger B.A. Klorese]

Douglas Furlong wrote:

>
>If you know exactly what it is then your comment "does one need to be a
>programmer to use this software?" would not have been asked as the simple
>answer is... "Well duh, it's a development release that is not fully functional
>and is not stable, if it works great, if not be prepaired to put up with pain."
>

First, on every other open source product I'm using, "put up with pain" 
means "have the developers step through specific diagnostic steps in 
fine detail so I can perform them and help them debug."  It does NOT 
mean "expect to be relied on as an independent debugger."

Second, when I asked about it at the time, I was told that it was indeed 
"almost fully functional."  Given that it was a shadow CVS, not a live 
one, I expected that at least smoke-test level testing would be 
performed beforer exposing it to the public.

In the second case, I'm sure that if the zero-length attachment problem 
existed for everyone, this would have been addressed long ago.  So I 
have to assume some corner case of incompatibility exists.  Which takes 
us back to the first case... where I'd expect debugging instructions of 
the form "add the following after line xyz of file abc" instead of "dump 
it to output."

>The normal way of checking to see how it works, is to have a look, and try
>adding lines that echo a variable to the screen, this should not be impossible
>to acheive, however for you and I would require a lot of trial and error.
>  
>

If you can "add lines" then you are a PHP coder.  Maybe not much of one, 
but a PHP coder.  I am not.