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[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by bigmoney

In the software projects I work on we use the term for both cases, but who knows, may be different from community to community.

That seems reasonable, but what I said is my opinion based on my own experience in cell phone software development. In that case, software needs to "workaround" bugs in the cell phone ASIC hardware. In that context "workaround" is a bit derogatory.

Originally Posted by bigmoney

So for instance an user might ask me "how do I get this report exported to Excel" and I might tell him "we do not support Excel export but you could export it to CSV and them import in Excel". So it is a workaround, even though the lack of Excel export is not a bug in our system.

That is a very good example!!! I can understand your view completely from that example.

Originally Posted by bigmoney

A workaround in my view is an alternative way to avoid an issue. An issue may be a bug, a missing feature, or anything in between (the line between a bug and a missing feature is not always very clear, anyway).

Conceded.