zipfile stupidly broken

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Gabriel Genellina (Wed, 16 May 2007 16:38:39 -0300)
> En Wed, 16 May 2007 12:18:35 -0300, Martin Maney <maney at two14.net>  
> escribió:
> > So the author knows that there's a hard limit of 64K on the comment
> > size, but feels it's more important to fail a little more quickly when
> > fed something that's not a zipfile - or a perfectly legitimate zipfile
> > that doesn't observe his ad-hoc 4K limitation.  I don't have time to
> > find a gentler way to say it because I have to find a work around for
> > this arbitrary limit (1): this is stupid.
> 
> This is not a good place for reporting bugs - use  
> http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470

Actually it is:

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| Giving the shortage of reviewer time, invalid bug reports on tracker
| are a nuisance and a diversion from attending to valid reports and
| reviewing patches. That is why I encourage people to post here for
| community review.
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