Enums

[Kevin Benton]

> There is another good reason to get rid of enums. 
> Every time we make a change to the list of OS's or platforms or any other
> enum field (something that happens more often than we would like) we lose
> those fields' information on all existing bugs. They all get reset to the
> default. It would also open the door to allowing customizing status and
resolutions. 

Which is something I had to do today.  Yuck.  It scares me every time
because I am concerned that if I put a new OS in the middle of the list, it
will trash the ones after it.

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Kevin Benton
Perl/Bugzilla Developer
Advanced Micro Devices
 
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